Quotes About Observation

Once I got into the league, I liked to watch LaDainian Tomlinson. He was nice, man. Quick, strong, great eyes, able to catch the ball.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

That's football. Observe, orient, decide, act, over and over and over again. The quicker you do these things, the better you're going to be.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

I'd make a good psychiatrist. I can work people out very easily and very quickly. I've been like that since childhood.

I can tell very quickly when people are lying.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

The number one rule of fishing is be quiet. Don't scare the fish!

My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.

When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.

I was quite quiet as a kid. I sat around watching people.

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

I observe people around me, interact with them and try to understand what's on their minds. I also try and include their little quirky mannerisms in my films.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it.

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.