Quotes About Observation

What people see the first family do has an effect. And from a slightly different aspect, I think that family living in the White House is going to have a profound effect on many Americans.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

I love watching birds of prey and stags.

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

My father, who is now 94, was an actor. The prime thing he taught us as children was to walk through the world with our eyes open.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show.

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.

My private life is always under scrutiny. Each and every action is analysed and re-analysed.

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

I've noticed that right tackles have gotten better in pass pro throughout my career.

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.