Quotes About Observation

If you are a poet, you will clearly see a cloud floating on this sheet of paper. Thich Nhat Hanh

Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.

I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to write down.

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

I don't try to try to judge people on performance in one short period of time.

It's really hard to judge people until you see what they do with the job.

People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

We can be judged in many ways.

We're being critiqued every day, whether you hear them critiquing you, or it's behind your back, whether it's the client, casting, friends, agents - you're constantly being judged, and you're constantly being denied!

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.