Aldo Leopold Quotes

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

If you would judge, understand.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

I know all the critics.

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

That’s what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy.” Artemis’s cool eyes glared at them from the screen. “So which is it?” asked Foaly. “A genius or crazy?” Root grabbed his tri-barreled blaster from the gun rack. “What’s the difference?

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

I observe a lot. I see a lot around me.