Quotes About Observation

Reconocer el terreno» significa observar un lugar concreto para poder urdir un plan. Por ejemplo, si eres un ladrón de bancos —aunque espero que no sea así—, quizá vayas al banco unos días antes de robarlo. Quizá con un disfraz, mires aquí y allá, observando a los guardas de seguridad, las cámaras y otros obstáculos, para poder planear cómo evitar que te capturen o te maten en el transcurso del robo.

It certainly was," Klaus agreed, not adding that he had known the word "superlative" since he was eleven. "I see that just about every evening," Hector said, "and it always impresses me. It always makes me hungry

Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn't nearby.

As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware... I recently looked in the refrigerator of one of my enemies and learned she was a vegetarian, or at least pretending to be one, or had a vegetarian visiting her for a few days.

I saw a woman wearing suspicious lettuce!

Sometimes things can go on right in front of your nose, but you don't know about them.

but he was not looking at the view beneath him. He was looking beside him, where Violet Baudelaire was sitting

It is curious to look at one's family and try to imagine how they look to strangers.

There was a philosopher who said that all of life is just shadows. He said that people were just sitting in a cave, watching shadows on the cave wall. Aye - shadows of something much bigger and grander than themselves.

But there are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them

Look at everything in plain sight. The bed, the table, every object you see has likely been in the world longer than us, and they'll still be in the world when we're gone. It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.

cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and as he talked to the children he looked at them through the rearview mirror.

There were no books in the room as far as I could see. I should have known better.

Red-breasted robin?" a red-breasted robin might repeat in astonishment. "That's not my name. And why are you focusing on my breast? That's inappropriate.

they knew, from the prism of their experience

A menudo las primeras impresiones son absolutamente equivocadas. Puedes mirar un cuadro por primera vez y que no te guste nada, pero, después de mirarlo un rato, te puede parecer muy agradable

resemble a lab assistant.

I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

If I had learnt nothing else from my study of the methods of the three great men sitting near me, I had learnt this, that they would eventually pick out the one person I had not suspected. So I followed the simple plan of suspecting everyone. I was determined not to be surprised.

Picon, who had remained silent for some time, now started assiduously to rearrange the fire-irons.

Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.

But, when you've swallowed what's stuck in your throat, tell me who's the first to notice the rain in this part of the world.

They say a deaf man heard a dumb man talking about a blind man who saw a cripple walking the tightrope." He