David Byrne Quotes

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

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

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

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

You need to pay attention to the little things as well as the big things.

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.