Quotes about Observation

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

You can capture a butterfly, and pin its wings down to study the colors and shape and design, but the moment that butterfly is still and you're able to make the most precise and detailed observations about that butterfly is the moment the butterfly can't fly anymore.

You start with your 1 and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. When you are constantly judging what you're doing, you aren't here. You aren't present. You are standing outside of your life, looking in, observing. The time for judgement will come at some point, but in the moment, you have only the 1. And then the 2. And then the 3...

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those Not in position to look too close.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.