Sigurd T. Olson Quotes

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.

Look up and down and round about you.!

Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

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

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?