Quotes About Observation

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.

Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which I was starting to think was more and more beautiful the longer I looked at her.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.

An artist is always like a seismograph, registering the inner shocks of his epoch.

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.

Scientists make these deductions by examining a rat, or your landlord who won't cut the rent, and what do they find? Asparagus.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.

De las veinte decisiones que tomo cada día, dieciocho son intuitivas, a partir de la observación.

The secret is in the details and in observing a lot. You have to pay a great deal of attention, constantly, to what happens every day, more so than to the weekend's game: we are always aware of every aspect, of a player's moods, their expressions, of thousands of almost unfathomable things that could make a difference. Observation is key.

He continually learnt from everything he saw around him, from other teams, from coaches, from older team-mates. On one occasion, he asked a couple of his colleagues to repeat a free-kick routine he had seen the B side perform the previous weekend. The move led to a goal and their coach asked, 'Whose idea was that? And where did you pick that up?' 'From the grown-up players,' responded a fifteen-year-old Pep Guardiola.

The most intelligent of creatures," he offers softly, "often make the fewest sounds.

Sometimes we need to see what we feel so we can know about it.

That's the thing about being a janitor, or maid, any type of custodian. You glide unseen, like a fish underwater.

The most intelligent of creatures, often make the fewest sounds.

Todo cuanto tuviera que ver con Claire merecía ser repetido a cámara lenta, sin que las matemáticas fueran una excepción

Las causas no podemos reconocerlas nunca, todo lo que percibimos son los efectos. Lo que identificamos como causa en realidad no es más que un… presagio. Si suelto este lápiz, se caerá al suelo. Que el hecho de soltarlo constituya la causa de la caída puede creerlo un estudiante, pero yo no. Soltarlo es sencillamente el presagio infalible de la caída.

It never occurred to her that if the drainpipes of a house are clogged, the rain may collect in pools on the roof; and she suspected no danger until suddenly she discovered a crack in the wall.

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