Quotes About Observation

How strange! A dog is more humane than a human is.

Those who listen with their hearts will begin to see patterns everywhere.

Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

Gilbert, in a panic, rushed downtown and climbed to the top of his building to see how it was doing. All night long the winds raged, and the Tower Building didn't even tremble. It remained standing until 1913, when it was demolished.