Quotes About Observation

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

If you are batting first as an opener, you give yourselves a couple of overs, see what's the wicket behaving, and then try to assess what a good score on that wicket would be, and then you plan accordingly.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.

Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

My dad - Gaby Yala - played for the Congo national team as well, at Under-21 level. When I see him playing, even today, I could see he's got something about him.

I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll be playing in my head, while they are.

I watch a lot of badminton, and as a result, I know more or less about the forms of most of the players.