Quotes About Observation

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.

Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.