Quotes About Observation

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?

Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.