Quotes About Observation

No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.

I love humanity, I love the way people look

I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that impressed me -because I love to talk about ice - is that it has a color.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.