Quotes About Observation

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

When I came to Arsenal years ago, I saw things from Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry I'd never seen before.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

I always watch guys and take a lot of little stuff. I've taken a lot of hesitation stuff from Steph Curry. I think he's the best at that.

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.

It's all well and good when it's going good and people have an opinion on how well you're playing, but it's the hidden things they don't see.

I can look around a room and tell you if there are hidden cameras or not.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

I do a better job of standing in front of the guards than I used to. I can take it to a higher level as far as reading the offenses, reading where all of our guys are, so I can get into the right position.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.

Just as you could form some idea of the nature of a man from the kind of house he built, if he followed his own taste, so you could, without seeing the fairies, tell what any one of them is like, by looking at the flower till you feel that you understand it.

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them ...

What did you mean by speaking so about the Ash? She rose and looked out of the little window

It is strange, but so it is, that many a man never sees himself until he becomes aware of the eyes of other men fixed upon him; they seeing him, and he knowing that they see him, then first, even to himself, will he confess what he may have long all but known.

Mrs Oldcastle was silent—why, I could not tell

Hate will sharpen observation, affording opportunity for many a shrewd guess, and the construction of clever and false theories, but will leave the observer blind to the whole.

The stars are a free show; it don't cost anything to use your eyes