Quotes About Observation

Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes will take in more information about the slope. Sometimes you'll find that your initial read was incorrect.

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.

I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

I had to do a lot of preparation for 'Kaaka Muttai.' I had to literally spend every night and morning in the slums, observing the life of people there, and work on my diction.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

I have to think my success in the VC business was due in no small part to seeing Larry Ellison in action back in the day.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

I don't think one gets to choose the kind of comedy he/she does. I may not talk about Rahul Gandhi's take on an ordinance, but I will talk about things as simple as a 'chappal' or a 'sherwani.' My comedy is about small things, and that is how it connects.

I love to write down things I notice about people or things I've overheard people saying that are interesting. I love people-watching, and I love taking the time to notice the small things.

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

I face the camera every day as a student as there is a lot to learn. You become an actor when you put emphasis on smaller details.

We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.