Quotes About Observation

It's hard to understand why just walking around for two hours and taking pictures would be just a big deal, but once you try it, you'll fall in love with it.

It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person.

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compliments you. If he's complimenting you when you're just walking down the street and it's something completely pure and of the moment, then that's something you can take to heart.

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

If I get the walk of a character, that helps me find them. So I'm constantly looking at airports and train stations, registering walks.

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified, both fauna and flora.

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years.

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.

University was a chance to people-watch and to mix with people from all various walks of life, which as an actor is a great experience because you get to observe people.

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's what gives them their road map.

I like to take walks and getting out and seeing things. These experiences are so irreplaceable and give you a whole different perspective on the greater context that you're in. If I didn't try to take advantage of that, I'd be missing out on a lot of really interesting things.

Zahara likes to hide from Angie, who always knows, right when she walks in the room, that Z's playing.

If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.