Steve Clevenger Quotes

Oversight was not meant to be comfortable.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

People never notice anything.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

I watch people constantly.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

We like to keep an eye on the rascals.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

Someone is always watching or listening.

If you pay attention to everything and everyone, you can keep your finger on the pulse and know what's going on. Then you can pull back when you need to or go forward in a certain way.

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

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

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

I am unobservant.

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

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

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

My Noble Intelligencer …. My Ubiquitous Eyes

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.