Quotes About Observation

To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you've set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

I was useless in the classroom; I would spend my time looking out of the window after the first 10 minutes. But when you do an apprenticeship, you don't have to wait for the teacher to tell you when it's time to start, because you are on the shop floor learning for real.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.'

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

I've always felt like I was observing everything, like I'm just looking out of the window, peeping how everybody is living and just penning about it, so I made the album about that concept.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

We have got so caught up in an insular world that swings between our phones, our computers and our heads that we have forgotten to look out of the window, and say, 'Hey! It's raining.'

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.