Quotes About Observation

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.

The truth is, no one is like Columbo.

The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.

It's important for an actor to feel like they're really being watched and to receive feedback and encouragement about the aspects of what they're doing that feels truthful - and also to raise awareness when they might be resorting to habits and tricks, which every actor has.

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.