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Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist. -- Jared Kushner
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer. -- Anthony Holden
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine. -- Jared Kushner
In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth. -- Jared Kushner
The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available in a variety of platforms and written by an editorial staff known for its distinctive and discerning style and wit. -- Jared Kushner
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them. -- Toby Young
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them." -- Toby Young
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.' -- Candace Bushnell
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological. -- Roger Ebert
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. -- George Savile
I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it. -- Richard Dawkins
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas. -- Ian Anderson
As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer. -- Tim Hetherington
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. -- Muhammad Iqbal
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. -- Stephen Hawking
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. -- Dennis Ritchie
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such. -- Dane Cook
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years. -- Giorgio Armani
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. -- Deepak Chopra
If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer. -- David Tudor
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
Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking. -- Deepak Chopra
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. -- Maria Montessori
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. -- Alexander Pope
At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out. -- Nick Cave
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. -- Andre Breton
I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. -- Radhanath Swami
Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener. -- Daniel H. Pink
Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore. -- Brendan Myers
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. -- Camille Paglia
To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas. -- C. V. Raman
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. -- Drew Houston
The observer is the observed. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The value of art is in the observer. -- Agnes Martin
Is it possible to observe without the observer? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nobody could be an observer without being involved. -- Toba Beta
I've always been quiet, more of an observer. -- Isabel Lucas
You are not an observer, you are a participant. -- Nhat Hanh
You are not an observer, you are a participant. -- Nhat Hanh
Which came first ? the observer or the particle? -- Vanna Bonta
The detached observer's view is one window on the world. -- Kenneth L. Pike
The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer. -- Lionel Suggs
The detached observer's view is one window on the world. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most. -- Kathryn L. Nelson
The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation. -- Robert M Edsel
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. -- Buffalo Bill
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal. -- Christina Stead
I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology. -- John Pople
To be a good bodybuilder you must be a good observer. -- Serge Nubret
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer. -- Peter Bichsel
You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer. -- Bill Goldberg
To be successful in bodybuilding you have to be a good observer -- Frank Zane
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer. -- Annie Lennox
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. -- John Archibald Wheeler
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. -- Heinz von Foerster
To be a great business person, you must be a great observer. -- Ehab Atalla
Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion. -- Joe Abercrombie
Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs. -- H. L. Mencken
I'm an amused observer. I don't bet or gamble; that's the worst thing. -- Pablo Francisco
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. -- Johann Caspar Lavater
A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits? -- Jack Schwartz
The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed. -- Akiane Kramarik
Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants ... -- Susan Dunlap
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. -- Georges Cuvier
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. -- Werner Heisenberg
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman. -- Sara Genn
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others. -- Timothy Keller
When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer. -- Cornelia Funke
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. -- Alexander Pope
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer -- Mark Rothko
Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change. -- Robert Lanza
Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. -- Joe Haldeman
One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three. -- William Allingham
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. -- Billy West
You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you. -- Bryant McGill
The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world. -- Patanjali
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer. -- Joey Lawsin
I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on. -- Valerie Trierweiler
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. -- John Ruskin
The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience. -- Alexandra Robbins
I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer. -- Aziz Ansari
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. -- John Derbyshire
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. -- Eric Bana
Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you. -- Deepak Chopra
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. -- Soren Kierkegaard
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold. -- William Shakespeare
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved -- Joyce Carol Oates
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in. -- Lauren Conrad
There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer. -- Toba Beta
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it... -- Nicholas Sparks
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm an amazing dancer. Of course, to the casual observer, my dancing looks like I'm walking and then sitting. -- Jarod Kintz
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting. -- Mike Svob
To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul. -- W. Somerset Maugham
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? -- Stephen King
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. -- Hugh Kingsmill
My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer. -- Rick Wakeman
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to. -- Mamur Mustapha
The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed. -- Mary Tyler Moore
The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness. -- Andrei Linde
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed. -- Edmundo Desnoes
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee. -- Doug Stanhope
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. -- Fritjof Capra
Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself?McLUHAN: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant. -- Marshall McLuhan
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. -- Jean Houston
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. -- Margaret Fuller
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. -- Johannes Kepler
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. -- Jean-Luc Godard
You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. -- Liz Phair
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. -- Heinz von Foerster

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