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Quotes About Observation

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.
~ David Toop
With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.
~ Debby Ryan
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
~ Deborah Norville
You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.
~ Donna Jo Napoli
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
~ Edward Hopper
In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.
~ Eric Burdon
Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.
~ Eric Weiner
It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like with make-up on' and 'this is what they look like in real life.'
~ Erin Heatherton
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
~ Ezra Pound
There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.
~ Frederick Lenz
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.
~ Frederick Lenz
In life, everything awaits in the shadows for the suitable time to come out! All waits silently in the nooks! Observe the shadows and the nooks to guess what will happen!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.
~ Mike Colter
In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
~ Molly Shannon
I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.
~ Natalie Maines
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
~ Nicholson Baker
Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.
~ Nick Kroll
It's so funny - my mom when I am dating someone new, all she will get is the name, first and last, and within an hour, I will get an entire life report of the person.
~ Nico Tortorella
I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.
~ Nicole Richie
I always viewed life as material for a movie.
~ Noah Baumbach
When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?
~ Patricia Reilly Giff