Robin McKinley Quotes

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number