attentive observation Quotes

If you don't look for a problem, you won't find it.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions