Quotes About Being Observant

#1. I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Dick Schaap

#2. I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant.

Mark Haddon

#3. Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name-total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

Gwen Stefani

#4. I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

Mindy Kaling

#5. All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Walt Whitman

#6. Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Catullus

#7. The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

Bill Murray

#8. Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

B. B. Warfield

#10. Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.

Christine Swanson

#11. It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#12. And trans women and femmes share another important attribute: We are survivors. The rest of the world may assume we are weak and fragile because of our feminine inclinations, but in reality, living with other people's relentless misogynistic bullshit has made us tenacious bad-asses.

Julia Serano

#13. For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

Kenneth Branagh

#14. The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.

Rebel Wilson

#15. As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

Dinaw Mengestu

#16. And if they tell you you're not a team player, just congratulate them on being so observant.

George Carlin

#17. Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Chris Robinson

#18. No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

Adam Mansbach