Quotes About Observation

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo," the seventeenth-century master of haiku, Matsuo Bash?, wrote in a series of insightful reflections on poetry. I would extend Bash?'s wisdom about nature, and about the poetry of nature in particular, to include the particular nature of poetry: learn about poetry from the poem .

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers,Leastways if you reckon two thumbs;Long ago he was one of the singers,But now he is one of the dumbs.

Uncannily accurate intuition, coupled with a tendency to overlook the obvious and ignore major data.

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

Looking down, the student exclaimed, "Look, there is a $100 bill on the ground." Without a glance down or a break in stride, Fama replied, "No, there isn't. If there were, someone would have picked it up already.

The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples are David M. Carroll's Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook (2009); David George Haskell's The Forest Unseen (2012); and Dave Goulson's A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm (2015).

Where scientific observation addresses all phenomena existing in the real world, scientific experimentation addresses all possible real worlds, and scientific theory addresses all conceivable real worlds, the humanities encompass all three of these levels and one more, the infinity of all fantasy worlds.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. the photographer begins with the finished product

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.