Quotes About Observation

I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I would say I get most of the musicality from my mum - and my dad, but I think my dad is the poet, you know.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

It's good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports - how they're behaving and how they react in difficult situations.

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

I spot detail quickly.

I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.

People can spot a phony and I think young people can spot a phony.

I went to this club in North Carolina and saw Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings perform. Just looking at the demographics of the audience, I thought it was interesting. A few weeks later, I was at the same spot to see Talib Kweli perform. And 60-70 percent of the crowd were the same people.

I don't like to be in the spotlight. I like to just chill and observe other people.

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a spotlight, I use certain movements that draw the eye instinctually.

This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.