Quotes About Observation

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine.

He was small but his eyebrows were big. In fact they were the biggest eyebrows I had ever seen. They were large, luxuriant and very black.

wasn't as pleasant lately, Sam thought, as he made his way through the back entry to the detectives' division. There weren't so many people there

keeping his eyes moving as he looked ahead for any surprises that might be waiting for him. The camera drone rose up above and then moved away, and Roscoe continued his purposeful walk. He reached the center after a few minutes and looked around, but he was alone. That was normal, he knew; the other person within the fenced arena would be doing his best to stay out of sight until the last possible moment. That was completely understandable, Roscoe felt. After all, there weren't very

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine. All

as I weaved and wended my dappled way toward Jackson Lane, I felt certain nobody here would ever commit an impolite crime, and whatever crimes they did commit, they would never be so vulgar as to get caught.

Learn you will never, if attention you do not pay.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

a place does not have to be pristine to be worthy of protection and care... If people are open and observant, wilderness is all around us.

he was looking at Isla Fawcett, who was looking at her brother Morris, who had his eyes shut because he was asleep.

just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …

documentaries

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience.

You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen.

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Philately is exacting. It demands an eye and a memory for details, for the intricacies of designs, for tiny differences between one batch of stamps and another.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

The religion of Hell is patriotism, and the government is an enlightened democracy. This contented the devils, and Jurgen had learned long ago never to fall out with either of these codes, without which, as the devils were fond of observing, Hell would not be what it is.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.