“ The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. ”
- Amanda Burton- Copy
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“ Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Like an immense flock of chattering birds observing precise migratory habits, every Wednesday, just a few minutes before noon, they swoop down upon the midtown area. ”
- Deirdre Carmody- Copy
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“ I can't help observing that with the last shadow cabinet you were not allowed to join unless you were a very, very hardline Eurosceptic. ”
- Kenneth Clarke- Copy
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“ I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination! ”
- Jacques Lipchitz- Copy
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“ Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. ”
- Melvin Maddocks- Copy
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“ Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. ”
- Sam Ewing- Copy
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“ We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
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“ My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone. ”
- George Foreman- Copy
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“ I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. ”
- Socrates- 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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“ What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it. ”
- Werner Heisenberg- Copy
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“ Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different. ”
- Reed Markham- Copy
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“ The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living. ”
- J. Z. Young- Copy
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“ We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ Being a painter is a lonely, desolate life, but I learned by observing people, observing conditions around me, the way things worked. And I've found that painting-which I still do-has helped me a great deal as an actor. There's a surprising amount in common. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
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“ I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease… observing a spear of summer grass. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled. ”
- Sigourney Weaver- Copy
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“ The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious… ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before — human experience — is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know. ”
- Ray Lyman Wilbur- Copy
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“ FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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