Quotes About Observation

It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It's what I do.

I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

Good writers touch life often.

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.