Quotes About Observation

For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

I have studied many politicians closely.

At Liverpool, I studied Steven Gerrard all the time and improved my game that way. Here, I absorb all I can from Iniesta and Messi.

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

The basis of my confidence is that I wasn't a talented player. I was a talented human being. At school, I always had good figures. I was the captain of all my football teams. I studied physical education at the Academy, so I learned to analyse, to observe, and to take decisions.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

I was in Studio 54 one time; it was great. But I'm not a discotheque guy. Sometimes, if I had a new demo, I went to some discotheques to check it out - see how the reactions of the people were. But just to dance, I rarely did that.

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.