Quotes About Observation

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up.

You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.

You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.

I've been a stargazer for quite a long time, I've got the apps, I know where a lot of things are in the sky and the apps actually can help just to point out what you are looking at because then you do get to see, 'Oh that's Saturn, that's Mars.'

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Early on I was a fan of Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers. I liked the way that he used a bunch of words to rhyme together in one line. And I picked up sarcasm by watching the older cats at the barbershop. They were just out there talking and saying slick lines to one another. I also got inspiration from Smokey Robinson.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

When somebody notices me in the slightest, I can feel the eyes - boom-boom - as soon as they pass.

I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of the time for me, it flows over you. But when you're not there, you look at it in a slightly different way. You pick up things.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

I used to watch everybody's stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid it now.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

If I go to the store, I'm not trying to slip in the middle of the aisle so I can talk about it onstage. I'm at the store because I need food or medicine.