Joseph Cannon Quotes

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

People never notice anything.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

I am unobservant.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

To be awake is everything.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Listen. O’ listen.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

How did they know?.

It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.