Quotes About Observation

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can enjoy.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

A writer's work is to witness things.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.