Quotes About Observation

See and keep silent.

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez.

We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

Theseus overturned this by a single stroke: he moved the sessions outdoors, to the hill of the Pnyx, where the people could attend and observe their betters. What a revolution this affected! Before

Lately it seems there are mysteries everywhere, as if you've only just opened your eyes.

Cuando no oramos, es como si nos sentáramos a un lado observando a nuestros hijos en una zona de guerra recibiendo disparos desde todos los ángulos.

Descubrí que sin Dios estamos destinados a repetir los errores de nuestro pasado y a copiar lo que hemos observado.

Watch the shagging, you little bastard!' he shouted. 'Fucking look at it!' Hot sun was burning the

I believe you dropped something

perspicaciousness into question. He'd say you wanted to see a .45 Glock in the man's hand