Powers Of Observation Quotes

#1. Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. ... He's at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.

Richard Tillinghast

#2. It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

#3. But it's a child! You're a man!"
"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.

Katherine Rundell

#4. Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Donna Tartt

#5. Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

Kate DiCamillo

#6. Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. Your powers of observation are formidable, Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

Stephanie Wardrop

#8. He who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

Konrad Lorenz

#9. Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

Floyd Skloot

#10. Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

Eugene Delacroix

#11. Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

Ron Wyden

#12. So long as we do not permit faith to override our rational powers we should use those talents to explore the frontiers which lie at the outer limits of scientific observation.

Robert Christian