Quotes About Observation

For me inspiration is pretty much life. The life around you and everything that happens, the people you meet, where you go, what you've eaten in your childhood.

Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

I like going out and looking at people, and they inspire me so much.

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

It helps to see the world through a different lens, and that's what we wanted to do with Instagram. We wanted to give everyone the same feeling of discovering the world around you through a different lens.

I like Instagram because it makes me stop to take in the world.

Guardiola knows that the little details that can make us better. He analyses the game instantly - that's his biggest strength, his best characteristic.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

Sometimes I'll be in an elevator and I'll hear a corny instrumental version of 'Light My Fire.'

I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.

You can understand the integrity of the filmmaker from his camera angles. You can't hide anything from it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

I've played under many managers - some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it's not intentional, you log the good ideas and the bad ones.

My entrepreneurial spirit happened all day long because I got to think of things that kids would interact with. I was in front of my customers for 6-8 hours a day. I got to see what they like, what they don't like, what they connected with, and most importantly, did they learn something from this?

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

I am genuinely interested in China, I wanted to see it visually.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.