Quotes About Observation

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

In terms of being able to adapt to any situation on any given night, in any given moment and that just comes with nearly twenty years of experience and paying attention to the guys that I've tried to emulate throughout my career.

'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth." Rachel

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.