Quotes About Observation

I like to watch actors while they are acting, how they hold their attention when so many people around are there to distract them. It's difficult.

After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people who sat across from me began to cry. I was incredibly moved by this experience also, and was very curious to know what happens in our brains when we spend time not talking, just looking at one another.

As a session player for so many years, I have found myself in rooms looking around going, 'Is this for real?'

My dad doesn't know that much about cricket, but he has watched so many years of cricket.

You coach your own system for so many years, that's all you ever know. To be able to step inside and see how others do it was very beneficial.

Because I put in so much time and preparation, when I'm in the booth during a game, I see X's and O's. I just see football, and I remove my emotion from anything I ever do, whether it's my kids playing, Ohio State playing.

I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

I was lucky because I used to live right next to a video-rental store. I used to spend so much time watching films. So I've seen a lot. I used to watch 'Dynasty' and 'Dallas' and have seen every kind of film. I've been influenced by everything I've seen.

I don't have very good peripheral vision, that so-called sixth sense people have. I used to have a really good one, and now I couldn't feel anybody come around a corner.

The presence of flowers, as even I understood as a boy, is a reliable predictor of future food. People who were drawn to flowers, and who further could distinguish among them and then remember where in the landscape they'd seen them, would be much more successful foragers than people who were blind to their significance.

Lewis Mumford once wrote that somewhere in the nineteenth century it became necessary to know how to read before one could truly see a building.

pile, I started to see the golden kernels everywhere, ground into the mud by tires and boots, floating in the puddles of rainwater, pancaked on the steel rails. Most of this grain is destined for factory farms and processing plants, so no one worries much about keeping it particularly clean. Even so, it was hard not to register something deeply amiss in the sight of so much food lying around on the wet ground.

Culture becomes visible when we travel between " cultures " and when we look back in time to other " cultures " than our own.

In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Para não nos deixar aflitos, a natureza fez bem em restringir ao lado de fora a nossa ação de enxergar.

cada qual aprecia o odor de seu esterco: Nossos olhos não veem para trás. Cem vezes por dia zombanos de nós mesmos ao zombarmos de nossos vizinhos; os defeitos que detestamos em outrem são ainda mais visíveis em nós, e no entanto, os admiramos com maravilhosa imprudência sem perceber a contradição.

Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: "Yourself, sir," replied the other, "by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life.

Als ik mijn mening te berde breng, is dat om te laten zien hoever mijn blik reikt, niet wat de reikwijdte van de dingen is.

But between ourselves, let me say that there are two things I have always observed to go hand in hand: super-celestial opinions and sub-terrestrial morals.

Without you at my side, I feel as though my eyes are just a camera, like a closed-circuit camera without film in it, registering what's out there, second by second, letting it all vanish instantly to be replaced by more images, none of them properly appreciated.