Quotes About Observation

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.

I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

The fish will be the last to discover water.

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

What's outside the border when you're inside it?" "What's the border when you're inside it?" "What's the border when someone is outside it?" "Why can't the person inside see the person outside?

He would study any number of topics and had no real preferences, his many eyes enthusiastically moving back and forth as he read the pages at a steady clip. I don't believe he needed light, or eyes, to read, but I know he liked to mimic what he saw me doing. Perhaps he even thought it was polite to seem to need light, to seem to need eyes.

People thought lights deterred criminals, but unless someone was watching, lights only made it easier to navigate unfamiliar terrain.