Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

I like to look in the crevices of things, the nooks and the crannies. I like to see the things other people don't see, don't want to look at.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

The more you look, the more you see.

The more you look, the more you will see.

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

You see, but you do not observe.

You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

It's no good operating on eyes if your eyes are asleep.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

Sherlock Holmes becomes more human and more adept at fitting in with a lot of people, but he remains separate from the human race because he finds that a better place to observe that from. He stays on the mountain top because there, he can see clearly.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.