#observation

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away. ↗

— Yosa Buson

#meditations #observation #perception #poetry #zen

You see, but you do not observe. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#observation

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#opinions #wrong #observation

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#mermaid #observation #singing #love

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

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#attitude #causes #come #emotion #ideas

G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598 ↗

— Gurdieff

#being #humor #inspirational #observation #outlook

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. ↗

— Henry Ford

#been #during #get #most #observation