Quotes About Observation

you saw her coming, your first instinct would be to step aside and let her pass.

There was something quite animalistic about Hawthorne. The closer he got to the truth, the more you could see it in his eyes, in the way he sat, in the very contours of his skin.

closed my eyes, quietly adding casual racism to the charge sheet against Hawthorne

Cara Grunshaw and Darren Mills are both thick as shit. I've met police dogs with more intelligence than those two. You could tell them everything we've done, down to the last word, and they'd still end up running round in a circle, sniffing each other's arses.

But if she'd known him better, she might have been a little less curt with him. I saw the anger stirring in his eyes and it made me think of a crocodile rising from the mud.

The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect fires and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. I'm not making any judgment. It's just the sort of thing I can't help but notice.

wasn't that she would judge me. It was more that I would feel myself being judged.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Providing - that's not love. Being there - that's more important. I mean, we see that. We see that with all these rich socialites. They're crying out for attention; they're hurting for love. I'm not being judgmental - I'm just making an observation. They're crying out for the love that maybe they didn't get at home, and they got everything.

Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative - satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have to have otherwise.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

I love to think on my feet, and I love to be able to feel from a close proximity how things are going.

It's not easy trying to get into the psyche and behaviour patterns, which are far removed from one's own personality. Some intense characters linger long after it's over on screen.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

I shared a dressing room with Alan Shearer. I used to watch the opposition looking at him, and they'd be thinking they need to score more than one because Shearer is going to score, and he scores every game. That psychological advantage is fantastic.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a psychological approach, I guess.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

In cricket, there is a lot of psychology in the game, especially if you are watching people who are not top-class.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.