Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

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

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

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

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

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

You see, but you do not observe.

People never notice anything.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

I am unobservant.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

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

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.