Quotes About Observation

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

Alexey Alexandorivich had seen nothing striking or improper in the fact that his wife was sitting with Vronsky at a separate table, in eager conversation with him about something. But he noticed that to the rest of the party this appeared to be something striking and improper. He made up his mind that he must speak of it to his wife.

The attitude is summed up by a famous scene from the novel Memoir of a Bengal Lancer by Geoffrey Bampfylde, in which the young and naïve titular hero is shocked by Englishmen standing by and not acting while a Hindoo widow is hurled onto her husband's funeral pyre in the practice of suttee.[ 52] His more cynical flinty-eyed Irish sergeant advises him that "To be sure, sor, this would raise a few eyebrows on Hampstead Heath: but you're not on Hampstead Heath any more.

Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.

David foster Wallace: '...the revelatory power of freakishly thorough noticing, of corralling and controlling detail.[...] he trains you to study the world through the lens of his prose.' NYTimes, 7 Feb 2016

Maria Pollia, her school's theology teacher, remembered that Meghan was 'unusually compassionate'. Thomas Markle could also take credit for the observation by the school's head teacher

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

In Psychological Types, Jung suggested two contrasting ways in which people saw the world. Some people can appreciate reality only through their five senses ("sensing" types), while others wait for internal confirmation of what is true or real, relying on their unconscious. These

since it's about drifting, forgetting, passing time without noticing. Instead, quietly pay attention...

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back to see if he got whatever he wanted. I just find it odd to sit there and watch yourself.

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

I learn new things about what 'The Room' does wrong or oddly every time I see it with a crowd.

What I think about is about the opportunities that Mike Shanahan gave me as an inexperienced coach. I think about watching a Kyle Shanahan work. Just seeing the stuff he was running, his approach to different scenarios, and getting another understanding of what you can do as an offense... all of that helped me grow.

Offense, defense - on both ends of the floor - figuring that out. I'll keep watching the film and see where I can keep getting better.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

I always get so excited when I get to go to my friends at corporate offices. I am always, like, looking around. I think that's really exciting to be a part of an actual corporate office.