Quotes About Observation

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

Work hard. Someone's always watching.

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.