Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Observation Quotes
GuidanceLandmarksNavigationObservationOrientation If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.
NostalgiaObservationPeople WatchingSimplicity I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
Health AwarenessHumorObservation I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
GrowthMemoryObservationPerspectiveSelf-awareness Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds.
HumilityHumorObservationPerseveranceSports I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
AnimalsHumorObservationRespect I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
ArtistryCreativityGeniusObservationRules The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
CreativityIndependenceObservationPersonal GrowthSelf-education I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
CuriosityKnowledgeLearningObservationWonder Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
DedicationDetail-OrientedObservationPerseveranceRoutine I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.
InteractionObservationPerceptionSelf The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
NatureObservationSpringWeather In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
HumorIntelligenceObservation Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
Comfort ZoneCreativityIntroversionObservationSocial Dynamics It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
Emotional ResilienceHonestyInner StrengthObservationPerseverance To be honest I think watching from the sidelines is one of the most difficult things.
CuriosityDedicationNatureObservationPatience I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
DiplomacyObservationPatience I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
ArtCreativityImpressionismObservationPerception Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
CreativityInspirationMindfulnessObservationWriting You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
CautionConsequenceCuriosityObservationSocial Dynamics A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
GeniusIntelligenceMediocrityObservationSuperiority Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
AppearanceHumorObservation When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'
CourageDisciplineObservationSkillTraining Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye.
Attention to DetailDetectionObservationPerceptionSkills The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'
ComedyEnvironmentObservationProgression Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
ObservationPerceptionPerspectiveRealitySubjectivity The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
ArtCreativityExpressionObservationWriting In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
DiligenceDocumentationObservationRecord-Keeping For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
ObservationPhilosophyRealityTruth The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
ActingExperienceHumilityLearningObservation I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.