Quotes About Observation

People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

We want you to pay attention.

I pay attention to everything now - the taste of bread, the taste of water.

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

Being an actor adjacent to the media industry, I pay attention to that landscape.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

I pay attention when people get manicures and pedicures. I've always noticed it as a guy. When my wife goes to get her nails done, I'm always very aware of it.

If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.

We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.