429 Quotes About Observation

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

Listen to people but observe them when they reach to the same circumstances as you were in, know how do they act.

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

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

It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.

You don't observe your abilities, people do!

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days--as long as she could watch the goings-on.