Top 61 Quotes About Observing Life
#1. The French have the perfect word for it: 'flaneur'. It means to stroll around aimlessly but enjoyably, observing life and your surroundings. Baudelaire defined a flaneur as 'a person who walks the city in order to experience it'.
Gemma Burgess
#3. For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#4. Look at the past - empire succeeding empire - and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?
Marcus Aurelius
#5. The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
Kate Capshaw
#6. Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
#8. As Montaigne wrote, observing late-sixteenth-century life, To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death, and so much less natural than others: it is the last and extremest kind of dying.
Atul Gawande
#9. Lucid dreams often feel like this - as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.
Laurie Nadel
#10. She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#11. Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?
Ilchi Lee
#12. As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.
Cate Blanchett
#13. In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
Mark Bradford
#14. Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
Ray Dalio
#15. Life in the wild, as I'm observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.
Fennel Hudson
#16. Your eyes may mislead you sometimes. So don't be serious in observing, listen to your heart at times when you are confused.
Giridhar Alwar
#17. I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.
Todd Phillips
#18. We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
Laurel Clark
#19. Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. That is their happiness: they see all life without observing it. They're buried in it like crabs in mud. Except men, of course. I am not in a mood, just yet, to talk of men.
John Gardner
#21. Life can be a process of observing
what we are interfering with,
rather than interfering with
what we are observing.
Lujan Matus
#22. We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form
John Grierson
#23. Not even by colourfully painting my window can I block out the noise of the life outside, which doesn't know I'm observing it.
Anonymous
#24. For the first time in my life I'd started thinking about God, seriously imagining that there could be a kind of Creator of the universe observing everything I did, and my first reaction was uncomplicated, pure and simple fear.
Michel Houellebecq
#25. Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming.
Jay Woodman
#26. Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.
Brigham Young
#27. Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#28. While observing some people with their dogs, it is often a question of who is training whom. It is not uncommon to see an owner with their arms extended, holding on for dear life, while their dog runs wild. Unfortunately, I was becoming one of those owners.
Elizabeth Parker
#29. Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
Louise Penny
#30. Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite 'telescope envy' at gatherings of amateur astronomers.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#31. She seemed to absorb the short-term oscillations of life without being dislodged by them, as though she were actually standing back observing that both travail and elation were merely part of a much larger, much smoother curve.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#32. Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Holly Black
#33. You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
Clint Eastwood
#35. Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.
James Baldwin
#36. Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
Maria Montessori
#39. The process of becoming is not of doing but simply an act of observing. The internal process has been designed in such a way that it seems impossible for you to sit quietly even for some time at one place.
Roshan Sharma
#40. Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living.
Eraldo Banovac
#41. Process of comparison and condemnation prevents you from observing, studying. So a real student is one who observes everything in life, outwardly as well as inwardly, without comparing, approving, or condemning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#42. We spend our lives in such a hurry, so self-centred, that we forget the simple act of observing the life that's simmering all around us. Looking others in the eye, seeing more than faces. Maybe that's why we feel so lonely.
Filipa Fonseca Silva
#43. There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life
Maria Montessori
#44. The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
Oscar Isaac
#45. Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom
Walt Disney Company
#46. Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#47. Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.
Nick Kroll
#48. My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally,
Jim Dine
#49. To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.
Steven Wright
#50. There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.
Frederick Lenz
#51. Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#52. Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.
Chris Gethard
#53. Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community.
Claire Aumonier
#54. We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?
Confucius
#55. It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.
Tara Stiles
#56. I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.
Preity Zinta
#57. Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this one, claimed his life. As if he was his own ghost, standing slightly behind himself, observing.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#58. Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Oliver Goldsmith
#59. I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.
Jeremy Corbyn
#60. Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.
Deepak Chopra
#61. A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.
Vir Das
