Quotes About Observation

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching.

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

He was watching me scientifically; there was no emotion in him at all. There was an assessing gleam in the hooded black eyes, a satiric set to his mouth, and I knew with fatal clarity that I had been duped. The rapturous tenderness was only a ploy to win my response

Mounted on a horse, we were useful in direct proportion to our powers of observation and our ability to interpret what we say, faculties, of course, which are sharpened by interest. And our interest was boundless.

I would look down from the Point to see a hawk riding the updrafts from the ridges below me and I would think: I am higher than he is. This is what it's like to fly.

Noses run. Feet smell.

Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head?

As a couples therapist, I have three sources of information: what the partners report about themselves and each other, how they behave in front of me, and how I feel witnessing their behavior.

Typical Cowboy,"she muttered. "The world could be coming to an end and you wouldn't go outside to watch without your hat." ... "You got that right.

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

I watched Bindi as she stared intently at her daddy with dark, piercing eyes. He gazed back at her and smiled, tears rolling down his cheeks, with such great love for his new daughter. The world had a brand-new wildlife warrior.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you'll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. —FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

seen the big bear, he squatted down to read

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

Seems to me there are a million examples of how nice or how cruel people act every moment of every day.

Down through the ages and in the whole world, Watt and Newton cannot have been the only ones to notice the steam from a boiling kettle or observe an apple fall. Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.