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Quotes About Observation

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
~ Martin Sheen
I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got.
~ Pamela Adlon
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.
~ Paul Theroux
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
~ Ursus Wehrli
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
~ Andy Warhol
I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.
~ Zoe Kravitz
I'm obsessed with people, I'm obsessed with human behavior. I just watch people.
~ Zoya Akhtar
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
~ Johnny Depp
I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.
~ David Suchet
If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
~ Mike Ditka
I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.
~ Sophia Myles
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
~ Alan King
Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.
~ Shawn Ashmore
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
~ Roy L. Smith
We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I don't really talk that much. I just watch and observe.
~ YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
~ Hippocrates
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
~ Otto von Bismarck
The so-called world knows everything about Slobodan Milosevic. The so-called world knows the truth. But I don't know the truth. But I watch. I feel. I remember. I question.
~ Peter Handke
I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
~ Albert Brooks
Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
~ John Thaw
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
~ Darren Aronofsky
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
~ Dane Cook