Quotes About Observation

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

Details are all there are.

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

When I was younger and was working as a Dia guard I would go to see everything. I went to every opening. I was really interested in seeing and learning as much as I could.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.