Quotes About Observation

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.

Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there's something new that you'll notice or something that you'll miss, and you think of something new that you can do.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.

Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point of view.

I love seeing Mark Steel or Mark Thomas, but I'm not that sort of person.

The dark areas, the 'mare' plains of the moon, are so incredibly smooth that the English astronomer Thomas Gold has suggested that they might really be depressions filled to the brim with dust. A rocket hit would show whether they are that or not.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.