Quotes About Observation

I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

I traditionally like to be patient, calm and look for openings - try to box for a few rounds until I figure out what the best thing in the ring will be for me.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

For many years, I did ride-alongs with patrol cops, which is any citizen's right.

Inspiration is everywhere - life, travel, childhood, nature - it depends on how you see it, how you can absorb the inspiration, and it depends on how your mind thinks. It could be a pattern on the floor that may be the next pattern I put on a cake, it just depends upon how you take it, when you're seeing it and what you're looking for.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

One of the things historians do is we look for patterns. And in many ways, Donald Trump is a very easy read, because he operates in certain ways. And he is the king of distraction.

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

What you look for as a reader is somebody who is going to take you and say, 'C'mon. Come into the story. I'm going to show you what there is to see.' The guide who is going to tell you, 'Pay attention over there,' or, 'Do you remember that other thing? Now watch!'

I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.