Quotes About Observation

I used to watch big guards and how they handled the ball and made plays. Guys like Joe Johnson.

I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that.

I think players look around and they look at the teams that they'd like to join and it's usually teams that already have good players on those teams.

It's more fun to watch without joining in.

Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.

I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan

If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop 's pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the sky, raises new skies and new spheres and circles.

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.

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