Observation Quotes

People are like the waves, all similar, none the same

~ Benny Bellamacina

The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

In the bazaar today I noticed a shopkeeper sitting cross-legged on the platform of his shop making up his ledger. A common sight - but there was something wrong, I could not at first see what. Then I understood: what was his heavy ledge resting on? It was lying open before him, on his stomach, but unsupported by his free hand, not resting against his knees. What on earth was propping it up?The problem teased my mind so much that I had to retrace my steps for another look. There he was, comfortably scribbling away in the large ledger, which was standing up, apparently unsupported, in his lap. Then, as I stared, he closed it, and got to his feet - and the mystery was explained. He had elephantiasis of the scrotum, and had been utilising this huge football of tissue as a book-rest.

~ J.r. Ackerley

Never worry if you’re excluded from the circle, sometimes it’s full of squares.

~ Benny Bellamacina

The English summer is never far away, it's just above the clouds.

~ Benny Bellamacina

Everyone’s face is odd, because we only get one.

~ Benny Bellamacina

To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.

~ Marty Rubin

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.

~ Franz Kafka

Observation is a dying art.

~ Stanley Kubrick

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

~ C.s. Lewis

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.

~ Brian Rathbone

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

~ Nancy Farmer

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?I said nothing.What colour's a blackbird? she said.BlackTypical!

~ David Almond

We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

~ Victor J. Stenger

Children observe everything in nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every eye makes its own perception.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The star rises from the east. Watch out!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every traveler should make their own observation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't look so far, when it is so near.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life.

~ Matthew Donnelly

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

~ Charles Eisenstein

Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out

~ Benny Bellamacina

Open your eyes! And observe the miracles of everyday life. Absolute Amazing!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Bohr and Heisenberg assumed that after a measurement is made by an outside observer, the wave function magically “collapses,” and the electron falls into a definitestate—that is, after looking at the tree, we see that it is truly standing. In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron. Observation is vital to existence.

~ Michio Kaku

Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which “collapses” the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumesa definite reality.

~ Michio Kaku

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

~ Criss Jami

Every new day, we must refocus, to see the beauty of the moment

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

~ Eraldo Banovac

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

~ Hermann Hesse

If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and involves something akin to surrounding it with a whole system of Geiger counters, I can freeze it in such a way that it stops emitting radiation.Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. The Catholic fiction writer is entirely free to observe. He feels no call to take on the duties of God or to create a new universe. He feels perfectly free to look at the one we already have and to show exactly what he sees.

~ Flannery O'connor

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

~ William Faulkner