Quotes About Observation

It is amazing how much you can see in other people - the good and the bad, we won't even talk about the ugly - if you just shut up and watch them.

but seven of us went to where she was standing, looked

Ruby's heart sank. The broken clasp. Not only had she let go of the one thing that might have saved her life, but she had also neatly tipped off the Count as to her whereabouts. That's why he had retraced his steps. That's why he had found her. RULE 7: DON'T FORGET THE LITTLE THINGS - IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT WILL LEAD PEOPLE TO NOTICE THE BIG THINGS , or as Mrs Digby would no doubt say, A stitch in time saves you a whole lot of bother later on .

RULE 9: THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE THAT SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE IS WATCHING YOU.

RULE 3: PEOPLE SO OFTEN DON'T SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.

I pay attention. Nothing more than that." "You make it sound like it's no big deal to pay attention when the sad fact is, most people don't. It takes a lot of energy to listen.

being. I find it's important to keep on your toes with English people because they're fucking devious while they blandly polite you to death.

There's silence for a long moment as we all watch him go: then, like air whizzing out of a balloon, we all deflate. No more excitement for us. The hot boy has left the building.

He slung both arms around the back of his chair, and it reminded me how different girls and guys were. Girls kept their bodies tucked in tight, while boys took up every inch of room they could.

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

Sometimes, in the movie theater or the supermarket, I look around at people who I suppose live their lives without a chemical crutch, and they amaze me.

But Dewey didn't look at him. He was looking at something downstream. He had a strange look on his face. And then Chet saw it too: a gray triangle sticking up through the water, heading right for Dewey.

quiet streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-

But tornadoes form deep inside the clouds, hidden from satellites and radar. We don't know a tornado is coming until someone actually sees it with their own eyes.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

Every captain sponsored by Prince Henry was under orders to record the tides, the currents, and the winds

there may be a matter of five leagues," he observed. This is what he saw: a series of mounds, covered with tufts of grass

Everywhere Magellan looked, there seemed to be an idol mocking him; they were even arrayed along the shore, and their appearance was disturbing to European sensibilities

Darwin felt that he was peering through eons to the dawn of human society. He judged them

Depois de todos os hábitos de acasalamento e comportamentos que (Marco Polo) presenciara na Ásia, a ideia de monogamia conjugal talvez não fosse de todo bem-vinda.

Though hardly a revolutionary insight, the comment set Pigafetta apart from sages such as Pliny and Marco Polo

he would present phenomena as he observed them with his own eyes.

There is a witness who does not rest who is inseparable from your life. This witness watches everything that occurs in your waking state as though it were a dream.