Quotes About Observation

I too have drunk and seen the spider

I see a similarity between dogs and me. Dogs are the true observers walking up and down the world thru the Molloy country.

watching the world walk by in its curious shoes

I have seen the Virgin in an appletree at Chartres And Saint Joan burn at the Bella Union. I have seen giraffes in junglejims their necks like love wound around the iron circumstances of the world. I have seen the Venus Aphrodite armless in her drafty corridor. I have heard a siren sing at One Fifth Avenue. I have seen the White Goddess dancing in the Rue des Beaux Arts on the Fourteenth of July and the Beautiful Dame Without Mercy picking her nose in Chumley's.

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

el bucle OODA». OODA siginifica: observación, orientación, decisión y acción.

THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around.

I looked up from the street and again at the wretched captives. I vowed not to let the noises of the city drown out their voices or rob me of my past. It was less painful to forget, but I would look and I would remember.

Pay especially close attention to the seemingly trivial details and the little discrepancies.

You can observe a lot by watching.

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

The anthropologist cannot always leave his own shadow out of the picture he draws.

We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

In some ways I think every wrong turn I was to make . . . could be traced to moments of inaction, moments when I noticed things unfolding wrongly and failed to query or object.

Next time you leave the house, think about who might be watching you. Do you pass a traffic camera? Do the shops you go to have security cameras? Is there a camera on board your train or bus? What about in your school? The cafes and restaurants where you eat? Street corners? Subways? And who is on the other side of that camera? A private security guard? The police? The government? How can you tell?

A big definition of who you are as a designer, it's the way you look at the world