Observation Quotes
My evening visitors if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.
If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.
We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.
One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
People are like the waves, all similar, none the same
Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.
The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon
Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.
The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.
He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.
Only when you observe with the intent to understand you will discover the deeper truth.
There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.
Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation
I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.
The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.
People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.
