Jason Mitchell Quotes

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

I've always been a keen observer of people.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

You can observe a lot by watching.

I see too deep and too much.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that's going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.

I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.

If I have any strength that would be considered above average, it is that I can read people.

People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.