Quotes About Detecting

Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing detection, and you can't have people up to cross-examine them, and you have neither the energy nor the means to make proper inquiries; and, in short, when you're doing the whole thing in a thoroughly amateur, haphazard way.

Oh! are you detecting now?' 'Like anything. If you could take the top of my head off, you would see the wheels whizzing round.' 'I see. You're not detecting me, I hope.' 'Everybody always hopes that.

Good morning, mademoiselle. Yes, it is as you say. You now behold a detective—a great detective, I may say—in the act of detecting!

Execution is what gives you an edge in detecting new realities in the external environment as well as risks that are being introduced, perhaps inadvertantly, to your own operations.

Detecting can be fun, but it can be a pain not only in the neck but also in the head, the guts, the back, the legs, the feet, and the ass. And often is. It was that time.

Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

Deduction was for the highbrows in top hats and great coats; I performed my detecting with a boot and a six-gun.

time to see what Molly was doing. At first he didn't see her. Then he spotted the

Patient genius is constantly detecting order in apparent chaos ... and when this happens, by all means rearrange your map of the universe accordingly. But do not argue that chaos is therefore non-existent.

If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it proactive intelligence screening or high alert detecting, people would be saying Well, it's about time.

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Evolution has provided the human brain with marvelous tools for detecting and resolving fast-moving, clearly visible, small-scale, near-future risks. By the same token, the brain is easily overwhelmed by slow, abstract, large, long-term problems.

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

I always find pacing aids the detecting process. Well, that and gin. But as our host hadn't offered the latter, the former had to suffice.

Are you asleep?" I said I was. She lit a cigarette for me, one for herself. "Don't you ever think you'd like to go back to detecting once in a while just for the fun of it?

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine.

Concerted (effortful) observation—is absolutely essential to reading people and detecting their nonverbal tells successfully.

Tolstói rivaliza con él, en mi opinión, a la hora de detectar lo relevante y lo significativo donde, a primera vista, parece que no está.