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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. -- Gao Xingjian
Observing and understanding are two different things. -- Mary E. Pearson
Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention. -- Ilchi Lee
Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice. -- Allan Lokos
Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness. -- Ian Mcewan
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. -- Mason Cooley
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live. -- Tara Brach
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. -- Charles Darwin
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. -- Hugh Leonard
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel. -- Chuck Klosterman
Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness. -- Bryant McGill
Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration. -- Andrey Zvyagintsev
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation. -- George A. Romero
Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day. -- Warren Buffett
Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers. -- Joseph M. Juran
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. -- Venerable Bede
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do. -- Rihanna
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
Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity. -- Piet Mondrian
It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life. -- Tara Stiles
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. -- Graham Greene
I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Amusement to an observing mind is study. -- Benjamin Disraeli
You can see a lot just by observing. -- Yogi Berra
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -- Eric Hoffer
I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. -- Amanda Burton
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
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
I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve. -- Wayne Dyer
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer. -- Franz Kafka
We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce. -- Shigeru Yoshida
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
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different. -- Amy Waldman
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. -- James Payn
After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels -- Anson Dorrance
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. -- Richard Jefferies
Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way. -- William Kamkwamba
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. -- Aristotle
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. -- Paul Rand
My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. -- Andy Warhol
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. -- Mary Oliver
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. -- Egon Schiele
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. -- Laurel Clark
I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment. -- Dominic Monaghan
With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation. -- Marek Belka
Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. -- Oscar Isaac
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. -- Sofia Coppola
The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need. -- Kate Capshaw
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water. -- C. V. Raman
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats. -- Ken Goldberg
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too. -- Giada De Laurentiis
I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe. -- Dule Hill
If a writer stops observing, he is finished. -- Ernest Hemingway
The very act of observing disturbs the system. -- Werner Heisenberg
I love documentaries, I like observing real people. -- Tracey Ullman
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian. -- Paul Krassner
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace. -- Edwin Way Teale
I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking. -- Norman Reedus
There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature -- Benny Bellamacina
The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome. -- Dean Radin
Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve. -- John Wooden
I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself. -- Joel Edgerton
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him -- Heinz von Foerster
Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team. -- John Wooden
No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony. -- John Steinbeck
When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing -- Maria Montessori
We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others; while we act as evils. -- M.F. Moonzajer
An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing. -- Charlotte Mason
I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass. -- Walt Whitman
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. -- Frank Herbert
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. -- Marc Bloch
Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing. -- Haim Harari
God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living. -- John Zachary Young
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life. -- Steven Wright
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. -- William Gilbert
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention. -- Joshua Reynolds
Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating. -- Pushpa Rana
Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now -- Ed Seykota
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. -- Edward Tufte
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing. -- Bruce Lee
Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing. -- Rhonda Byrne
I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. -- Feist
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. -- Lauren F. Winner
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. -- Heinz von Foerster
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example. -- C. J. Mahaney
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations. -- Christina Baker Kline
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. -- Ernest Hemingway
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research. -- Holly Black
It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards. -- Charles Darwin
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. -- Benjamin W. Chidlaw
I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing. -- Yogi Berra
Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about -- Edward VII
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. -- Lawrence Hargrave
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. -- Dennis Prager
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. -- Aristotle
I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out. -- Kacey Musgraves
I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience. -- David Icke
I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother. -- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting. -- Oscar Isaac
Art of observing leads to intelligence. The intelligence leads to awareness. Awareness leads to liberation. Liberation leads to oneness. -- Abhinav Rajput
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. -- Upton Sinclair
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' -- Nate Silver
The ancients wrote down the first scripture of choreography by observing in the night sky movements of the dancing stars. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none. -- L. David Mech
Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. -- Desi Arnaz
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Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. -- Criss Jami
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository. -- Marian Seldes
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. -- Florence Nightingale
Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood. -- Amy Denise
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. -- Hattie Morahan
Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what's happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding. -- Deepak Chopra
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen. -- Clint Eastwood
Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades. -- Steven M. Greer

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