Quotes About Observation

My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.

We're trying to find needles in the haystack, and the needles are going dark, and it's because of this phenomenon we can't track their movements.

I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

Claire Danes in 'Homeland' just blew me away. She is so intuitive, and her choices are so unique. When you see somebody like that work, you just have to stop in your tracks. It is a lesson in what good acting really is, and it is so inspiring to be around.

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

I have not told the half of what I saw.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.