I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
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