Quotes About Observation

If we observe and listen carefully to how a person behaves and communicates linguistically, we can glean an understanding of how, neurologically, a person puts his or her experience together to be excellent, mediocre, or awful at the things he or she does. Hence, this field is called Neuro-linguistic Programming.

You pay attention to how people answer, instead of what they say.

You pay attention to how people talk when they answer, rather than what they talk about. Even when a person does not answer the question directly, they will reveal their pattern by the manner in which they answer (or don't).

Mitch opened his eyes, closed them, and then opened them wide. "There are big breasts in my face," he announced to anyone who would listen.

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-" "Yes?" "Taller." "I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me." "And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.