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Quotes About Observation

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
~ Tim Conway
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
~ Kat Edmonson
Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched.
~ Jim Lee
I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.
~ Debby Ryan
I watched the Tyson-Holyfield fight with Stallone. I remember when Tyson bit him, Sly looked at me and said, 'I think he bit him'. I said, 'I think you're right, Rock.'
~ Stephen Lang
I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.
~ Jami Attenberg
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
~ Nicolas Roeg
If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah, it's the same rules, but it's a different game every time you're out on that court. You're working on a different part of your game every time you're out on that court; your partner's working on a different part of their game, and the act of being watched changes it.
~ Kevin Spacey
There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen.
~ George Tillman, Jr.
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
~ Zendaya
My great grandfather had been the neighbourhood 'horse whisperer,' so I've probably loved horses since I was an embryo. Whenever I watched cowboy films as a small child, I wasn't watching the hunky cowboys - which I'd probably do now - I was watching the horses. Even now, I love sitting in the field just watching the way they move.
~ Lee Pearson
Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out of them. I've taken something from probably every average to above-average pitcher I've ever played with - what they do. You see what they do and how you can put that into your game.
~ Zack Greinke
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
~ Conor Cruise O'Brien
It's - I can't imagine a world - the idea that every day Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefs, Donald Trump stops what he's doing and turns on the TV and watches it while eating a Taco Bell or whatever he eats. And then she has to go into his office afterwards and get critiqued on it.
~ Daniel Pfeiffer
When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.
~ Christina Hendricks
Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
~ Clive Owen
Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
~ Mario Andretti
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
~ Howard Fast
When I work with a character like Valjean on stage, I get totally absorbed in that man. I become that man. But there's always, outside of that, the third eye, which watches what you're doing. And you can say to yourself, 'I'm crying well' or 'I'm being angry well.' But there's always that element there, and it never stops.
~ Colm Wilkinson
I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true.
~ Neal Adams
I know everybody in the NBA watches each other's styles. They might not admit it, but they do.
~ Nick Young
My son looks up to me and watches every single thing I do.
~ Cody Garbrandt
The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
~ Barry Eisler