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Observation Quotes

"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."

"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of"

"She's a great genius for looking over other people's shoulders and detecting the faults they would fain conceal"

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."

"Nothing is so curious as the mix of an apartment far up among the chimney-pots and the little world that hurries and jostles below."

"Better to be inside the warmth of the party than out in the cold observing"

"I was afraid of looking into the people's faces, their eyes were so sharp and burning. Their glances were unlike the glances of ordinary people"

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes"

"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"

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention"

"I want you to understand that deeper dimensions of life don't open up because you philosophize, they open up because you pay attention."

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them"

"I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning "

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference"

"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look"

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