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Quotes About Observation

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.
~ Bertrand Russell
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.
~ Frederick Lenz
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
~ Des MacHale
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
~ Eileen Wilks
The job of the baby is to learn.
~ Elizabeth Spelke
When I was a little boy, I was fascinated with how women looked and carried themselves.
~ Erdem Moral?oglu
Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.
~ Francois Ozon
Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?
~ Frank Loesser
I observe that more evolved souls are now reincarnating as women. Women find it easier to meditate and easier to develop their psychic abilities.
~ Frederick Lenz
We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.
~ Gabrielle Dennis
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.
~ Gary Busey
Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.
~ Gelett Burgess
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
~ Gelett Burgess
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]
~ George Herbert
Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.
~ Griffin Jay
Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.
~ Jane Goodall
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.
~ Joy Harjo
I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
~ Kate Chopin
I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.
~ Lily Collins
I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.
~ Manolo Blahnik
I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
~ Maria Sharapova