“ The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. ”
- Peter M. Leschak- Copy
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“ Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. ”
- George Meredith- Copy
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“ He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
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“ What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ”
- Khalil Gibran- Copy
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“ I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ”
- Dr. Haim Ginott- Copy
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“ Concentrate your energies, your thoughts, and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. ”
- Napolean Hill- Copy
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“ A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
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“ As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond. ”
- Larry Bird- Copy
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“ One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness. ”
- Margaret Oliphant- Copy
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“ We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace… ”
- Marianne Williamson- Copy
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“ One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
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