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Quotes About Observant

He did not know the methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making journeys, and agitating myself. My work is done from within—here—' he tapped his forehead significantly.
~ Agatha Christie
She is quiet, pretty in a washed-out way. She is, I think, devoted to her husband. She has something that Arlena Marshall did not have." "What is that?" "Brains.
~ Agatha Christie
He notices a good deal. Those quiet people often do.
~ Agatha Christie
I'm glad you live in the moment. That's what I envy about dogs.
~ Alan Russell
I've always been the girl who can't sit on her hands. If there's a pink elephant in the room, I'll identify it and say it.
~ Angela Rayner
I wasn't the crazy kid bouncing off the walls, I would just sit back a make comments and I made people laugh.
~ Tom Segura
My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess you could say my mom gave me her eyes.
~ Jason Momoa
When you grow up in a border area of Ireland, people are very wary and cagy and keep their head down at all times. Don't speak unless it's absolutely essential, and don't give anything away.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
You watch Silva, and he almost never gives the ball away. He is always looking, thinking, making the right calls.
~ Christian Eriksen
You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.
~ David Alan Basche
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
~ Nat Turner
Slim quiet Negroes
~ Raymond Chandler
She didn't look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the ones she thought she might be able to use sometime.
~ Raymond Chandler
Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.
~ Karin Slaughter
She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand
~ Karin Slaughter
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
~ Viggo Mortensen
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
~ Samuel Barber
A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience.
~ Debasish Mridha
Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?
~ Marie Leszczynska
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
~ Charles Dickens
You is getting nosier than a parker.
~ Roald Dahl, The BFG
True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.
~ Chris Messner
He must have been one of those men who doesn't really notice such things and leaves it to others to sort out any awkwardness or imperfections. This is not because they are thoughtless or because they consider themselves too high and might, it's simply that their brains don't register these practicalities or the world around them.
~ Javier Marías
Stay present, stay conscious. Be the ever-alert guardian of your inner space.
~ Eckhart Tolle