Quotes About Observation

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Experience precedes understanding.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

Experience by itself is not science.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.