Quotes About Observation

Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Acting is very anthropological for me. It makes me less judgmental.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

I have the mind-set that a guard can't stick me. So I watch the bigs and see how they like to play. If you're a shot blocker, then I jump into you. If you take charges, then I pull up for the midrange.

Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

When I see things through my eyes, I don't want to ever just be really negative towards someone's performance. There are many ways to skin a cat. Sometimes I watch the guys, and they're doing different things than I would have done, but I don't ever want to be too critical.

When I have a bad game, I watch the film and just kind of remember everything.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

I'm just a comedian. I don't have all the answers. But I'm not just looking for them online. I'm looking around me.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

I like watching Kate McKinnon do something - there's a joy in seeing a new move from somebody and going, 'Oh, she can do that.'

There's lots of people I'd be keen to see doing things, someone like Jack Dee.

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

I take a keen interest in the architecture of places when I travel.

People think I'm a keen birdwatcher, but I don't go out of my way to look at birds. I'm not Bill Oddie. But I do know which are which. I keep my eyes open.

Keep your eye on the ball.

Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.