Quotes About Observation

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.

If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.

In 'Uthamaputhiran,' 'Velaiyilla Pattathari' and 'Yennai Arindhaal,' I was a mute spectator to everything.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.

For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

You never know about team speed until you get out there. You don't know who is a slow learner. A kid may not be very bright or he may be real bright but he doesn't know football. You've got to find out all those nuances and how they learn.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.

My eyes are green, and in one of them there is a splash of brown - apparently it is not a colour, but a freckle! Sometimes I notice that one eyelid droops more than the other.