Quotes About Observation

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.