Quotes About Observation

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

We must look a long time before we can see

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

I'm Lila, and yes, he's crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he's obviously gotten crazier over time.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.