You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.


Lord Chesterfield's Letters (ed. Oxford University Press, 2008) - ISBN: 9780199554843

Philip Stanhope Quotes

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions,...

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions,...

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions,...

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions,...