Quotes About Observation

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Rendre visible ce qui, sans vous, pourrait peut-être jamais été vu

L'oeil superficiel, l'oreille profonde et inventive. Le sifflement d'une locomotive imprime en nous la vision de toute une gare.

Art is not in the mind. Art is in the eye, in the ear, in the memory of our senses. Images, dreams.

A quote by film director Robert Bresson (1901-1999), 'Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen' (as cited in The Independent I, 2019), encapsulates why, although there appears to be a gap between peers' early language skills, it is necessary to go beyond rhetoric and supposition.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

Robert Bresson

I there before thee, in the country that well thou knowest, Already arrived am inhaling the odorous air: I watch thee enter unerringly where thou goest, And anchor queen of the strange shipping there, Thy sails for awnings spread, thy masts bare: Nor is aught from the foaming reef to the snow-capp'd grandest Peak, that is over the feathery palms, more fair Than thou, so upright, so stately and still thou standest. (A Passer-by)

We're made so that we loveFirst when we see them painted, things we have passedPerhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;And so they are better, painted—better to us,Which is the same thing. Art was given for that.

Truth that peepsOver the glasses' edge when dinner's done.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

I had continued jotting down good lines—once the eyes and ears are awakened to the possibilities they can't be put back to sleep...

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

I told you those two stories because they describe two very different kinds of mentoring, neither of which are the kind that the word usually implies. In the first case I learned from the authors of a very well-written manual. In the second case I learned by observing people who were actively trying to ignore me. In both cases the knowledge gained was profound and foundational.

Word gets around." "You mean they communicate?" A third voice. "You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they'll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn't been bothered in years. They'd grown careless.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Accept the fact that sometimes coincidences happen. Clouds sometimes look like horses and clocks sometimes stop for no reason. Resist the urge to find meaning and significance everywhere you look.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing?

The Vulture. Of all the creatures in the jungle, he has it the easiest. The hard work of others becomes his work; their failure to survive becomes his nourishment. Keep an eye on the Vulture - while you are hard at work, he is circling above. Do not fight him, join him.