Quotes About Observation

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye because we know the camera will catch it. That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who has been in it as long as I have.

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff.

I've always wanted Americans to see what's happening to their country from the comfort of their suburban homes and their smart phones. I want people to see the beginning of the end of the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen: America.

I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.

You don't look at each other on the subway.

I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

When I see someone interesting on the subway - the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons - my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going?

Any notable moments spent on a subway usually do nothing more than expose human awfulness at its most pronounced.

For me, New York is about anonymity; that's the draw. It's not at all about other people in my business being nearby. It's that I can get on the subway and eavesdrop on conversations that I would never have access to otherwise. That's why I stay. That's why I could never leave.

I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back and forth on the subway - that's where I get my best writing done.

The things you see when you're not carrying a gun

Thought creates the space between the thinker and his thoughts, and then tells himself, "I am looking at my thoughts.

Niggas be lookin shife, so I look shife back.

In contrast to primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions are centered on the effect that infants' actions – often by chance – produce in the external world. Essentially, secondary circular reactions aim at reproducing the effect by repeating the action that generated this effect in the first place.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.