#observation

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. stay eager. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#attention #concentration #connection #eagerness #inspiration

To a great mind, nothing is little. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#intelligence #observation #perspective #intelligence

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

— Michael Connelly

#observation #reality #truth #music

Shall we see the world as we sit, look around relax, look, look, look, disengage our intellects, perceive nature our common sense. ↗

— R.J.Askew

#nature

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. ↗

— George Eliot

#family

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice. ↗

— Julie Andrews Edwards

#happiness #inspirational #observation #optimism #umbrellas

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation. ↗

— John Buford

#another #attack #command #enemy #extreme

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

#control #different #experience #hip-hop #how

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. ↗

— Mos Def

#experience #life #make #observations #questions

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#essence #indispensable #luminous #me #nature