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Quotes About Observation

There are some masters from whom you can learn good things. Streets are one of those masters!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.
~ Nicolas Cage
Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
~ Ninette de Valois
Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight
~ P. C. Cast
Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.
~ Paul Theroux
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
~ Phyllis Bottome
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.
~ Robert Breault
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
~ Robin Trower
I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.
~ Sandra Cisneros
When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.
~ Thomas Bidegain
It might be good to open our eyes and see.
~ Thomas Merton
So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
~ Veronica Roth
I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.
~ Wesley Morris
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
~ John Kennedy Toole
We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
~ Merle Haggard
I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
~ Jesse Ventura
Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix
~ Donna Galanti, The Dark Inside
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.
~ Neil Armstrong
Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.
~ Edgar Allan Poe