Quotes About Observation

The higher the sky, the lower the people, he thought as he rang the doorbell. Why did there have to be people in every kind of landscape?

J'étais le seul témoin, sur les confessions d'une araignée de l'Isolement.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

Having formed a hypothesis that something is true about the world, we are more apt to note and file away evidence that helps to confirm that while passing over the evidence around us that would suggest otherwise.

Awareness is the capacity to witness life in all its aspects without evaluating or judging the energy patterns being witnessed, and without needing to control the outcome of an event.

Jeg tar av meg frakken, hatten og skjerfet og gir meg i kast med å tømme askebegre og plukke opp klær. Tre kvarter senere ser leiligheten ut som om den kunne ha blitt fotografert til Håndbok i husstell for leiemordere. Jeg har nettopp sunket ned i en lenestol, den som vender mot kjøkkenet og inngangsdøra, da Gunholder stiger inn. Jeg skynder meg å trekke inn magen.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

He caught Jankyn staring at Efrica Callan who was laughing at something Bridget said. "She is only sixteen years of age, Cousin." "I ken it. I was just wondering if she purrs." He exchanged a brief grin with Cathal before wandering off into the crowd. Cathal

Aristotle formulated the same point in more sober terms when he said that, that which sees becomes colored itself, so to speak, :and that the reality of the perceived and the reality of the perceiving are identical.

Mystery" referred to realities behind the appearances that one could observe by means of the senses. That is to say, though our hands, eyes, ears, nose, and tongue are able to access reality, they cannot fully grasp this reality. They cannot comprehend it.

"One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men."

Everything you look at can be turned into a story ... you can make a tale of everything you touch.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

Such a person can see without "pre-judice", that is, without judging in advance; he will judge only on the basis of what he has really seen for himself

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

In the American Civil War it was a matter of principle that a good officer rode his horse as little as possible. There were sound reasons for this. If you are riding and your soldiers are marching, how can you judge how tired they are, how thirsty, how heavy their packs weigh on their shoulders?

The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.

Out of little observations huge ideas may grow; and if a mind, made receptive by training in the use of the senses, can store away a mass of observations, the time will come when the whole collection can be unrolled, connected together as a great novel is planned, in a compelling pattern that tells us something new. Many

Everything becomes more meaningful to him who watches and listens without too much thought to the value of his time. One

Everything becomes more meaningful to him who watches and listens without too much thought to the value of his time.

Yes, madam," said Mrs. Cozzolina. She knew a lady when she saw one. There was something about them that stood out even when they had fallen upon hard times.