Quotes About Observation

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

The mind has a thousand eyes.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

I've got to show life as I see it.

It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.