Quotes About Observation

he recognized that particular look.

If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.

Sight is about contrast. You cannot see an object if there is nothing to contrast it against.

The Marvel of Life dwells in the sight of a diligent human.

It's a quality of the gods To see a creature with its back broken And be unmoved.

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.

I got the impression there was somebody home behind each set of eyes, and the effect was surreal.

The content was much like the form: exuberant with observation, and yet deftly measured. Each card made a little vignette.

When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

Sometimes I don't even be realizing what's really going on. So sometimes you just gotta take a step back and soak it all in.

I think most actors are very impressionable, and that's part of what we do is soak up other's behavior.

I don't watch daily soap. I've never seen my shows as well except for the scenes in which I really want to improve something or correct something.

If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way - you can kind of see what's missing. You can see when you're bored of something or of someone.

Here's what I love about social media: You get to peer into people's lives that you normally wouldn't be able to.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

I was a woman and younger. I started spending a lot of time in the mall doing a lot of qualitative research and really watching what consumers were doing. Were they gravitating towards the sales racks, or were they looking at the new fashions? Were they there to shop, or were they there to socialize?

I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.