Quotes About Observation

I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

Everything that people say is testable.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.

With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

I think perception is important.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.