Quotes About Observation

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes

Be Sure To Notice When You're Happy