Jon Taffer Quotes

The more you look, the more you see.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

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

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

The more you look, the more you will see.

I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. I might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself.

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.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

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

I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.