Quotes About Observation

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

Each time I arrived in a new city, I'd get lost in the streets and photograph everything that looked interesting, taking nearly a thousand photographs every day. After each day of shooting, I'd select 30 or 40 of my favorite photographs and post them on Facebook. I named the albums after my first impression of each city.

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

I spent the nine days' voyage partly sketching my Turkish fellow passengers, and partly trying to learn Turkish, and after a time I was able to say, "I would like a shoe-horn," and "See how badly you have ironed my coat, you must do it again." Father Chantry-Pigg said this phrase book was little use, as it had no sentences about the Church being better than Islam...

At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different me. I miss a lot of my own life, my own moments, because I step outside myself. I feel it all more in retrospect than in actual time.

As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

She was watching me out of the corner of her eye. She put a hand to her white hair. I said hi toots you got a match? Hepzibah Dodd smiled a faded smile. She picked up her copy of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. By Adam Smith. She stood and grabbed my arm. She had a grip like a brand-new bear trap. Her voice was quavery. She said of course big boy. She said in my apartment.

She's spry as a cricket and she knows exactly where the bear burped in the brickyard.

He'd know exactly where the possum pooped in the petunia patch. Lockington