Quotes About Observation

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

I look like I'm not listening, but I'm actually listening. I like listening to everything, observing everybody, just taking everything in, and then, in my mind, figuring out what's good for me and what's bad for me.

I do think observing is important in learning.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

You can learn so much just by observing.

It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Cats do this thing with their faces where they're so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they're observing.

I love observing people.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

A lot of being a comedian is about observing people.