#observing

I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#became #big #comedian #done #ever

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#acting school #been #best #fellow #fellow man

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#condition #course #elucidated #fully #having

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. ↗

— James Payn

#bus #cultivating #driven #driving #exceptional

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#business #crowd #curiosity #curious #his

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts. ↗

— Anthony Price

#devil #gained #had #hell #himself