Observation Skill Quotes

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

I think I was just born like that, a personality trait. I'm an observer.

I love observing people.

I love making observations. That one is a classic example.

I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

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

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

I watch people constantly.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on how I approach a character; the basic skeleton of my preparation is based on observations from real life.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.

I spot detail quickly.

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.