Quotes About Observation

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Kids are natural scientists.

Children are just little scientists.

I study the other players in training, particularly the forwards, and I look at how they are scoring goals. What do they do when they finish a chance?

Scott Rolen is a guy I used to watch a lot.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.

It's just so overwhelming to think, 'OK, the whole world is watching this!'

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!'

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

I didn't really adapt to Scottish football well, but I enjoyed my time there. The physical nature and the pace of the game was a big thing, and many of the teams defended really deep against Celtic so there was not so much space to run in behind. That's a big part of my game, so that was one thing as well.

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

If I'm going to hand over my classic Italian sports car, and you're going to be driving it down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, while I watch, I want to be certain that I'm adequately compensated for the pain of that vision.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.