Keen Perception Quotes

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

I have very heightened senses - not just my hearing but my sense of smell.

Frank Lampard has a vision for seeing things.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.