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Quotes About Observation

I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.
~ J Balvin
If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as they come walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity.
~ Chris Jordan
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
~ George Saunders
Growing up, I was surrounded by many great men in my life. I watched them and learned, taking it in like a sponge.
~ Greg Vaughan
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
~ Anne Lamott
The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
~ Eric Cantona
My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.
~ Yo Yo Honey Singh
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.
~ E-40
I try to be, like, hella sensitive to my surroundings.
~ J.I.D
We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.
~ Amber Valletta
I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.
~ Anouska Hempel
One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, 'Why don't we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?'
~ Andrea M. Ghez
You've got to know your surroundings.
~ Denzel Curry
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.
~ Susan Minot
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.
~ Vikramaditya Motwane
I have always been aware of my surroundings.
~ Xzibit
Surveillance breeds conformity.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
~ Agnes Smedley
I was on a few surveillance jobs as part of a big team. I would be the person to follow the subject on foot when the need arose. But most of the time, we were sitting in a car doing nothing.
~ Lisa Lutz
I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
~ Miranda Lambert
What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
~ Belle Boyd
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
~ Bruce Sterling