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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

— Marcel Achard

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

— Ben Okri

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

— Chris Matthews

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

— Mae Whitman

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

— Norman Lear

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

— Amanda Burton

I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

— Barbara Rosenblat

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

— Billy Crystal

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

— Robert Bresson

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

— Eve Best

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield