Observation Quotes

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes" "Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself" "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by." "When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting." "To contemplate is to look at shadows" "I want you to understand that deeper dimensions of life don't open up because you philosophize, they open up because you pay attention." "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." "Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars." "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." "I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention" "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing-- that's what counts" "Common sense ain't common." "She's a great genius for looking over other people's shoulders and detecting the faults they would fain conceal" "He listens well who takes notes" "What we see depends mainly on what we look for" "The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place " "Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see" "Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." "I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen" "We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look"