Quotes About Observation

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever "that" is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

The more you look, the less you see.

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.