Quotes About Observation

I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.

What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

You have to be able to analyse things well. Before I receive a pass, I always look to see what options I have.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Up until recently, I've said, 'I don't notice the sexism in the industry.'

Just as the supposed number may differ from the true number by fully 100, 150, or even 200 in a flock of 600 sheep, so may I be even more out of my reckoning in the case of these very little animalcules.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Not only was it necessary to get the gorillas accustomed to the bluejeaned creature who had become a part of their daily lives, it was also very necessary for me to know and recognize the particular animals of each group as the amazing individuals they were.

Watching 'Moonlight,' I just recognized this patience in the film - allowing moments to live and linger - and I just thought that was so beautiful.

I would watch San Antonio play and see plays I recognized from the Russian team, the Yugoslavian team.

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I've always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else's recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.