“The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.”
Source: What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
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“You see, but you do not observe.”
What Every Body is Saying: An FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
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