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Quotes About Observant

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
~ Dick Schaap
he's not stupid, he's just not observant.
~ Gary Paulsen
And if they tell you you're not a team player, just congratulate them on being so observant.
~ George Carlin
Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
~ Arthur C. Nielsen
Book people aren't exactly silver-lining types.
~ Sara Gran
It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.
~ Sara Sheridan
The duchess was in her way a clever woman, and could see many things. She
~ Anthony Trollope
You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
risen out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Even when she was tired her dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull
~ Sinclair Lewis
You, who are so observant, will no doubt concede the generalization that people divide into two large classes, those who live mainly in hope and those who live mainly in recollection.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
By mindfully considering data not as stable commodities but as sources of ambiguity, we become more observant.
~ Ellen J. Langer
Grace leaned against Colin, who was silently watching the lively chatter. That was characteristic of him, actually. And then she realized that they were a pair, a silent, observant couple. Still, in the circle of his arm, she wasn't a lonely observer. She wasn't a wallflower, anymore. She could be herself rather than wishing she was more vivacious, more full of chatter, more like Lily.
~ Eloisa James
Perhaps the mind cannot be complete at all points; perhaps artists of every kind live too much in the present moment to study the future; perhaps they are too observant of the ridiculous to notice snares, or they may believe that none would dare to lay a snare for such as they.
~ balzac honore de x
Kids are always very savvy. It doesn't take long for a kid to realize when an adult is a loser.
~ Taika Waititi
I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
~ J. B. Smoove
No one could have called Mr Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
~ Georgette Heyer
Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
~ Carice van Houten
I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
~ Chris O'Donnell
What I think is important for us as players is to always stay on our toes and be critical to everything being said.
~ Ada Hegerberg
Jesus' list diverges from both of these lists and blesses the most unlikely of people. Instead of congratulating the Torah observant or the rigorously faithful or the heroic, he blesses the marginalized who stick with God through injustice.
~ Scot McKnight
Jesus himself was law observant, but what distinguished his praxis was that he did so through the law of double love. To do the Torah through love is to do all the Torah says and more.
~ Scot McKnight
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
~ Scott O'Dell
Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.
~ Moby