Quotes About Observation

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

Poker is really about reading people. What happens when you bluff? What does it look like when the other guy bluffs? Does he look right, does he look left? Under what circumstances does he fold or call?

To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.

I can remember being young and being outside and watch guys go through what they go through with the police, and old ladies come outside their house and be like, 'Oh, Lord, they're hitting him,' or whatever is happening. You see it right in front of your face.

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

I know it's not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, 'That's the end of that.'

You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.

I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.