Quotes About Observation

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet for me, but now I'm happy to add another one too, that being photography

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

I am really just writing about real life.

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

What we have yet to discover, and it is probably beyond our mental horizons to do so at this time, is how emotional phenomena can stimulate physiologic ones. That they do is unquestionable, but for the time being, we may have to be content with Benjamin Franklin's observation: "Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her Laws: tis enough to know the Laws themselves.