Quotes About Observation

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

If I go to a match it doesn't mean I want to buy the stadium or the club.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Some people see what they want to see.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.

Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Political correctness is a war on noticing.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.