Quotes About Observation

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.

I do something about the weather. I stay home.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it

The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

Hope clouds observation.

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.