Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

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

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

I love to watch times change!

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I have to be seen to be believed.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.