Michael Scott Quotes

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

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

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

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

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

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

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

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

The more you look, the more you will see.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

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

You see, but you do not observe.

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

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.