Quotes About Observation

Vom Standpunkt des Weisen aus betrachtet, ist die menschliche Natur kindisch. Befindet man sich in einer Menschenmenge und betrachtet diese wie ein/e Zuschauer/in, wird man viele Kinder miteinander spielen sehen. Sie spielen und kämpfen, sie nehmen sich gegenseitig etwas weg, und sie ärgern sich über sehr unwichtige Dinge. (S. 119)

Keeper," Bramble said in a syrupy voice, grinning. "Have you met anyone so blasted handsome? " "Hush," said Azalea through her teeth. "He can probably hear you!" "And so dashing," said Bramble, though her tone was a touch lower. "And so perfect." "I've never seen anyone with such...fingers," said Goldenrod. Everyone paused. "Well, yes, his fingers, too," said Bramble.

reconociera. Divididas entre el deseo de ocultarse y el de ver caras familiares, se turnaban para observar el paso de las filas. Pero aquellos encuentros eran difíciles

Science is a method that oscillates between induction and deduction—we observe patterns, propose explanations, and test them to see how well they predict things we do not yet know. We thus generate models of the world that, when we do the scientific work correctly, achieve three things: they predict more than what came before, assume less, and come to fit with one another, merging into a seamless whole.

Other people will always appear to move with dedication and consequence. How else does a person behave when people are watching?

Xavier wasn't put on the earth to witness the bad htings like Jules and I were. He had been put here to notice lovely things, things that God had created and no one had any complaints about. Leaves turning red in the autumn. How when the tide goes out, the shells are left on the shore. I was put here - Jules and I were both put here - to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place.

Don't get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder's container idea: Notice everything, but don't buy into it. Hold it.

Jess falls asleep with her head against Darcy's shoulder, and I see Mr. Hawthorne waggle his eyebrows at Mrs. Hawthorne, who smiles over at Mrs. Delaney. I guess I'm not the only one who's noticed what's going on.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

I think women are excellent social critics.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. —Ferris Bueller

If you don't worry about something until it's already a problem," said Rosie, "that's not worry. That's observation.

If you don't worry about something until it's already a problem," said Rosie, "that's not worry. That's observation." The little girls who invited Poppy over had pink rooms and pink LEGOs and pink comforters over pink sheets on their pink beds.

Besides, there wasn't much the lab could tell a physician in 1940 that a well-trained, observant doctor couldn't determine independently.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies.

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.

For my money, this is the highest purpose of journaling. A travelogue enables you to look inward while studying the unfamiliar scenes around you,

Hace unos minutos comprendí que cualquiera puede observar a una persona mientras se desviste, pero observarla cuando se viste es mucho más íntimo. Aprendés el orden en que hace las cosas

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?