Quotes About Observation

But she had learned that it was smart not to reveal that all her senses were in full working order; instead, she allowed people to act in accordance with their own preconceptions. This was often a useful source of information, and Maud could form her own opinion of the person and the situation.

And you police officers! Can't even tell the difference between girls and boys.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Before the particles that we observe today materialized, all matter in the early universe must have gone through this stage of a quark-gluon soup, or plasma.

All in all, we come to the conclusion that no more than 1 percent of all matter in the universe falls in the visible category.

Chaotic or disordered distributions are symmetrical on the average. An observer cannot conclude anything about his location from looking around him. An example is the chaotic disposition of sand grains at the beach, or of flecks of light on a television screen when the station closes down. In the chaotic distribution, no location or direction is preferred. Only when there is structure appearing in a chaotic distribution does orientation become possible, as the overall symmetry is broken.

Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought

Nous ne voyons pas les choses mêmes ; nous nous bornons, le plus souvent, à lire des étiquettes collées sur elles.

You can predict an eclipse a thousand years hence, but you cannot predict what will happen when you pull a bulldog's tail!

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photographier : c'est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l'oeil et le coeur.

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

You have to try and stay alive in front of what you see, struggle with reality, get rid of habits and routines. You have to train yourself to look all the time, swinging between the conscious and the unconscious. In a sort of dance, I practice immediate, automatic, and intuitive drawing. I get a Normas joy from it. But the flaunting of reportage—getting into situations, "working" a subject—that is not photography.

Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.