Close Observation Quotes

No man is a hero to his valet.

I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you start revising. And as you revise you always are making it better by being specific and by observing more closely, which actually is really the same as saying you love your characters. The close observation equals love of them.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

I'm getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.