Quotes About Observation

She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts.

She talked as if she were observing her own sentences...

She fascinated me almost as much as he did, because, after all, she was his beloved, and I studied her carefully for clues to her success.

Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of step back and watch others.

I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.