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Quotes About Observation

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.
~ Gerhard Richter
The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.
~ Joel Garreau
I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.
~ Jonathan Demme
You never can tell with bees.
~ A. A. Milne
I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.
~ Buzzie Bavasi
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
~ Donna Tartt
In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.
~ Maria Sibylla Merian
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
~ Mark Twain
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.
~ Eleanor Tomlinson
More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.
~ Freida Pinto
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
~ Gertrude Stein
Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye
~ Gottfried Bohm
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
~ H. G. Wells
When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
~ Harper Lee
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.
~ Hermann Bondi
You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like that all the time.
~ Steven Wright
And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
~ Umberto Guidoni
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
~ Uta Barth
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
~ Margaret Mead
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
~ Agatha Christie
Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
~ Barry Levinson
We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.
~ Carol Ann Tomlinson