Quotes About Observation

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

Painting, n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Why don't you get a haircut; you look like a chrysanthemum.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town; I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.