Paul Gleason Quotes

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

You can observe a lot by watching.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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

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.

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.'

I am unobservant.

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

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

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

I try to watch everybody.

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

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

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.

Every act is a visual judgement.

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

People never notice anything.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

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.

Observation is an old man's memory.