Quotes About Observation

Do not watch too closely cogs in the wheel of time. Observe their passing as the rhythm of a poem — not clicks of the abacus.

We cannot see time directly but only catch glimpses of its reflections.

I am broccoli, and I look like a tree. I am a walnut, and I look like a brain. I am a mushroom, and I hate this game.

There is a Time to wink, as well as to see.

He was a little high-dried man, with a dark squeezed-up face, and small restless black eyes, that kept winking and twinkling on each side of his little inquisitive nose, as if they were playing a perpetual game of bo-peep with that feature.

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.

I have remarked a perfect analogy in the language, movement of the body of a person, and his handwriting. The more I compare different handwritings, the more am I convinced that handwriting is the expression of the character of him who writes.

Virgo: "You missed a spot."

Satire is merely pointing out that roses have thorns — and that we can't avoid pricks.

One Swallow maketh not Summer; nor one Woodcock a Winter.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Sometimes we don't look up unless we have a reason to. And then it all becomes clear.

See Dick drink. See Dick drive. See Dick die. Don't be a Dick.

Sherlock Holmes pointed out that one might see, yet not observe. That's a basic cause of much human failure.

Learning implies that every person in every process must have the freedom to observe and identify change and have the power to recommend opportunities for improvement.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one

Experience is the direct perception before belief, before thoughts

Our projection can provide insight if we are paying attention to our projection

Watch thoughts and emotions rather than be thoughts and emotions

You can be aware without being awake, but you cannot be awake without being aware