Quotes About Observation

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Representation is a sort of surveillance.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

When I'm overseas, I suspect I look like Mr. Bean.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange.

The Commonwealth Games have their critics, though I suspect that they are generally people who haven't experienced them.

I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.

The way things were done in San Antonio gave me a great 19-year look into how you can have sustained success.

If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.

Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that's built, you don't need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There's nothing wrong with Hubble's mirror.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

When something in the sweet science doesn't look right, most likely it isn't.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.

I think once I see everybody and go through every team and their pitchers, I'll get an idea of what they like to do. And they'll see what I like to do and swing at. I think there's always something you've got to adjust to.