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Quotes About Observation

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.
~ Voltaire
If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, then surely I would have to had been blind to not see it in her.
~ Ross Turner, Jenson
God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.
~ Mark Denman
God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.
~ Mark Denman
There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.
~ Sarah McLachlan
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
~ John Constable
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.
~ Warren Miller
The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.
~ Unknown
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
~ Sam Keen
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
~ William James
The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
~ Aldous Huxley
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.
~ James Richardson
Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.
~ Jay Asher
I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
~ Tony Bennett
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
~ Yoko Ono
I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.
~ Wilford Brimley
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.
~ Lake Bell
Ugliness sees ugliness
~ Unknown
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
~ Virginia Woolf
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
~ Vivienne Westwood
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
~ John Dryden