Quotes About Observation

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

All of us have been through relationships; there have been periods of time when we've been single. It's something that everyone experiences. It's a matter of making that observation and then start to ask questions about it: Why is it like that? And why do we feel that? And why are we organized this way? Isn't there any other way?

Katy Perry look like Kermit the Frog.

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations, I call that movement of the mind revolution. If the ideas are simply extended or modified, there is only progress. Thus the system of Ptolemy was a step in astronomical progress, that of Copernicus was a revolution.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

Science is nothing but perception.