Quotes about Observation
I dont suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You dont have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
— William Faulkner
Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying light in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.
— William Faulkner
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why
— William Hazlitt
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
— William James
Character is always more caught than taught.
— Chip Ingram
Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.
— Chris Tomlin
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to
— Leonard Sweet
He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.
— Lewis Carroll
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
— Lewis Carroll