Quotes About Observation

Can't decide whether dolly has exceptional emotional control or none at all.

Some of them are detached observers, like glass surfaces and still pools; others, such as coats in store windows, are prejudiced witnesses, lynchers at heart; others, again (running, water, storms), are hysterical to the point of insanity, have a distorted opinion of him, and grotesquely misinterpret his actions.

Tolstoy's prose keeps pace with our pulses, his characters seem to move with the same swing as the people passing under our window while we sit reading his book.

Couleur locale has been responsible for many hasty appreciations, and local color is not a fast color.

When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the act of attention might lead to our sinking involuntarily into the history of that object.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are. AWARENESS

letting go of judgments does not mean ignoring errors. It simply means seeing events as they are and not adding anything to them.

Awareness of what is, without judgment, is relaxing, and is the best precondition for change

A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN MY ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND THE art of relaxed concentration came when, while teaching, I again began to notice what was taking place before my eyes.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

He told me one day that he was being followed by a lurking suspicion.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Damn, amigo. Just how much Oprah have you been watching since I've been gone?

He watched her through narrowed eyes. Maybe he wasn't as stupid as she'd thought. He was good-looking, though . . . chin-length brown hair, full lips, five-o'clock shadow. Maybe she'd do him while she fed from him. Shade wasn't always available for a rendezvous in the hospital's supply closet, and Wraith acted as if she had a disease

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

If you look at anything long enough, it turns into style.

Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day.

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

They say you don't need to develop jhanic states, just enough concentration to be with any object for as long as it exists, so you can see that it arises and passes away.

They can't believe they're just supposed to sit there and watch the breath.

This provides further warrant for the observation that the unhesitating identification of "God" as the OT deity in the NT is noteworthy.

As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.

Time on Hubble is a precious commodity. Astronomers across the world regularly ask for much more time than is available. Keeping Hubble working 24/7 is no small task. Not a single second must be lost and all tasks — either observations or so-called 'housekeeping' tasks, such as repositioning of the telescope, or uploading new observing schedules — are meticulously planned.

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.