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  • Who will observe the observers? -- Arthur Eddington
  • We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. -- Erik Erikson
  • We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities. -- Leonard Susskind
  • Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. -- Laurie Helgoe
  • All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. -- Rupert Sheldrake
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  • Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. -- Francois Fenelon
  • I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
  • One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. -- James Humes
  • We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. -- Maria Montessori
  • If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. -- Nelson Mandela
  • As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually. -- Charles Stanley
  • 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
  • Dear young people, please, don't be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don't be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did. -- Pope Francis
  • That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not. -- Philip Yancey
  • In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better. -- Michael Leunig
  • People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. -- John Lasseter
  • I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration. -- Kevin Henkes
  • Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. -- Hayden Christensen
  • Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. -- David Dinkins
  • We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. -- Tom Brown, Jr.
  • Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming. -- Hanna Rosin
  • There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion. -- William Ernest Henley
  • I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture. -- Graydon Carter
  • For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible. -- Ishmael Beah
  • In the absence of observers, our universe is dead -- Andrei Linde
  • I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. -- Ian Hunter
  • It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars. -- Philip Treacy
  • A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing. -- J. D. Salinger
  • Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers... -- John Steinbeck
  • Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers. -- Deepak Chopra
  • For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. -- Gero Miesenbock
  • but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. -- John Irving
  • Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail. -- Judy Blume
  • We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe. -- John Archibald Wheeler
  • Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -- Mark Twain
  • Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. -- Eli Pariser
  • Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts. -- Yasmin Ahmad
  • Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it. -- Michael Medved
  • With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves -- Francois Fenelon
  • We act as a conduit for the observers' unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river, a building even -- Guy Mankowski
  • Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. -- William Hazlitt
  • Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to look. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers -- Tariq Ramadan
  • Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. -- James Humes
  • 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
  • Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. -- Bob Schaffer
  • If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences. -- William Wickenden
  • Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. -- Jonathan Swift
  • We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. -- Maria Montessori
  • ... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day. -- Alessandro Baricco
  • The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers. -- Thorstein Veblen
  • Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles. -- Landon Pearson
  • I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events. -- Dixie Lee Ray
  • With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared. -- Martin Luther
  • We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation. -- Barbara Pym
  • We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation. -- Barbara Pym
  • Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching all of this is an intrinsic interest in working through puzzles. -- Scott D. Anthony
  • Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true. -- China Mieville
  • It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation. -- Brassai
  • Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle. -- Mark Steel
  • A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world. ... -- Jonah Goldberg
  • Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way. -- Terry Brooks
  • The idea of a celebrity endorsing a presidential candidate is nothing new, but the full-throated endorsement for Senator Bernie Sanders from one of the country`s biggest hip hop stars had surprised some political observers. -- Chris Hayes
  • There are four varieties in society "? the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. -- Hippolyte Taine
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