Quotes About Observation

Webster Spooner carried my bag upstairs and showed me to my room. He said he would keep an eye on the car. I didn't see how he was going to do that from his box. I knew he was a sound sleeper. The woman Ruth had almost had to kill him to get him awake.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

Example is contagious behavior.

I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.' Then look your fill, and leap away.

I hear you say: 'All that is not /fact/ : it is poetry'. Nonsense! Bad poetry is false, I grant; but nothing is truer than true poetry. And let me tell the scientific men that the artists are much finer and more accurate observers than they are, except of the special minutiae that the scientific man is looking for.

A joke was the best barometer for mental weather.

Time—the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open.

many admire, but don't show

Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.

When what you write about is what you see, what do you write about when it's dark? from "32

the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer

the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer of the same show.

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.

Reynolds a renunÈ›at la dimensiuni È™i l-a întrebat pe Einstein dac? el crede în fantome. Einstein a m?rturisit c? el, personal, n-a v?zut niciuna È™i a ad?ugat zâmbind: - Când dou?sprezece persoane vor fi martore ale aceluiaÈ™i fenomen în acelaÈ™i timp, atunci am s? cred È™i eu.

I was the hero, Roberto De Niro, William Shakespearo! Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches.

He said if a tree fell down in a forest, and there was nobody there to hear it, would it make a sound? I think what he meant was that sounds only become sounds when we hear them, otherwise it's just waves that go through the air. So if there were no ears there to pick up the sound waves then is there any sound at all?

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

Hear with your eyes, see with your ears

However, show-and-tell sessions at Beinn Bhreagh with his grandchildren inspired him to design—and publicize in the Volta Review (published by his Volta Institute)—simple experiments for children. "If their curiosity and interest can be aroused," he wrote, "they will speculate for themselves as to the causes of the phenomena observed. This exercise of the mind is just what children need. It develops their reasoning powers and arouses their interest.

The best way to let go is to notice the thoughts as they come up and to acknowledge them.

To make collections of wild flowers for the several months, press them, and mount them neatly on squares of cartridge paper, with the English name, habitat, and date of finding each, affords much happy occupation and, at the same time, much useful training: better still is it to accustom children to make careful brush drawings for the flowers that interest them, of the whole plant where possible.

my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses...

Most men's eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice.

I often wonder if I could see her out of all the windows at once. But, turn as fast as I can, I can only see out of one at one time. And though I always see her, she may be able to creep faster than I can turn! I have watched her sometimes away off in the open country, creeping as fast as a cloud shadow in a high wind.