Quotes About Observation

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

Every miracle's got a mundane explanation. [...] and you can choose - you can look at the wonderous surface or you can look at the crud beneath. I want to see the wondrous, believe me. I just know it isn't going to be there when I've finished looking.

You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it.

Sara was reminded of yet another one of Will's traits, which was that he had an uncanny knack for keeping his mouth shut when he didn't know what to say. This resulted in the sort of awkward moments that made Sara's dating life look downright ebullient.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

I must confess, sweetheart, that I have been neglecting my wall of clues. My "useless gallimaufry," your mother called it on the one and only occasion she deigned to look at my work. I sagely agreed with her observation but of course I went running to the dictionary as soon as she was gone. Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley.

Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

The word 'autopsy' means, literally, 'to see for oneself.

En eso consistía la vida: nunca te das cuenta de lo que pasa hasta que te detienes un momento para observarlo con calma.

What's that noise?" she asked. Jeb pointed to a gutter hanging off the roofline. "I'm just now getting to it," he

Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

I see you, she told him. I see exactly who you are.

Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.

Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.

Ben Hecht said, "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell time by watching the second hand of a clock.

of age. No distinguishing tattoos or birthmarks." He looked up, making sure he was being followed. "Five-ten

BUILDING THE SKILLS OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Things you can do to increase your skills in the dimension of Situational Awareness include: • Sit in an airport, at a mall, or some other public place and watch people go by. Try to figure out the kinds of relationships you see between couples, families, and groups. How do they signal their relationships and their affiliation? Do they convey affection and affirmation, or do they seem cold or even antagonistic?

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

Physics deals with quantities that can be measured. Thus, you won't find concepts such as honesty, love, and courage as primary topics of discussion in a physics book. As

But Lenin founded a very unorthodox Marxist party, if indeed it should be called Marxist at all. Lenin learned to be an atheist, a revolutionary, and a socialist from other native Russian revolutionaries, no from Marx. He picked up the doctrine of dialectical materialism from the Russian revolutionary N.G. Chernyshevskii, not from Marx. An observation by Francis B. Randall

I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

The best thing about me is probably my eyes, but then I suppose my eyes would think that, as it's them that are looking at them.

Neighbourhood Watch to me is checking my neighbours aren't outside their house before I leave the flat, to avoid getting into long discussions.

Karl Pilkington