It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

Poets make the best topographers.

A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I’ve been trying to get my career off the ground for so long, I’ve given up and decided to become a pilot.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

I observe life more than I live it.

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.

I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.

Horses don’t speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you’ll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear...

People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale...

It occurred to me the other day that Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, one of the great fictional embodiments of the rational deductive method – finding evidence, observation and all the rest of it....

He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.

Ich weiß nicht, aber mich dünkt, ich sähe zwei Wege um zur Wissenschaft der menschlichen Geschichte zu gelangen. Der eine, mühsam und unabsehlich, mit unzähligen Krümmungen, der Weg der Erfahrung; der andere, fast ein Sprung...

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such love. He loved that we knew him. This is one reason people need...

When you reveal all you cheat the observer of their contribution.

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...

The procedure was a short one and it was successful. Chris is awake and alert and will remain under observation overnight. He will be discharged on Thursday and will remain in Melbourne before leaving Australia,

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.”Black””Typical!

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

I always notice flowers.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits...

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

What is important is not what you hear said, it’s what you observe.

The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.

Were I to spend my life commenting on the world that I see, I would never see the world.

Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin.

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

There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the...

Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look at the foot how the burials increased or decreased, and...

He is still under our observation. But he is still stable and still in hospital.

From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New...

Situation is really serious. The concerned authorities should take a observation of the whole matter as to several observations by the judiciary.

…observing things changes the outcome.

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

It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don’t ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager....

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either...

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.