Observation Quotes - Page 24

• I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

  Rebecca Stead

  Children, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Women speak an average 18,000 more words a day than men do. And there may be a genetic reason, it may be neurologically. Not that there's anything wrong with it. See, this is the thing. When you make the observation that women talk 18,000 more words a day than men, it's immediately taken as a criticism because it implies inequality. It implies that there's something wrong with women.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Men, Criticism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I think one of the other challenges is that, whether we like it or not, it's a profession that requires failure. It doesn't just encourage failure. It requires it because it's all trial and error. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Challenges, Comedian

  Source: www.flickreel.com

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• Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there are a few elements that distinguish women's observations from men's, like the ability to notice some fine details.

  Luljeta Lleshanaku

  Female, Literature, Femininity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world in Hollywood and all the big movies has been built up as just white.

  John Boyega

  World, Opinion, Big Movie

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that I'm sure I'm not the first one to express. There're thousands of year of history attest to the same thing. Maybe it's the way I'm personally dealing with that inevitable transition. So I'm making metaphors out of the work possibly to think about that and try to get comfortable with the idea.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Fun, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can, it's my way of understanding the world around me and staying constantly engaged with it, the more carefully and patiently I look at what interests me in the world the more faithfully and honestly I can document it. It is only through intense, subtly nuanced observation that we develop an understanding of the psychology of the subject.

  David Kassan

  Philosophy, Psychology, Understanding

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

  Lynn Shelton

  Philosophy, Real, Intimacy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.

  Chris Lilley

  Song, Character, Comedy

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.

  John C. Bogle

  Thinking, Islam, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone who doesn't actually live in the true sense of the word, but who consists rather of words and literature. In my view, that is, however, only half true. In a roundabout way through literature, which presupposes empathy and exact observation, he immerses himself again in the life of society; in a certain sense he comes back to it.

  Reiner Stach

  Empathy, Literature

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Character, Cutting, Simple

  Interview With Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

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• I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a coin flip at this point. Are you going to do better than your parents? It's a 50-50 chance, whereas if you were born in the 1940s or 1950s, you had more than a 90 percent chance you were going to do better than your parents. So basically almost a guarantee for most kids that you were going to achieve the American Dream of doing better than your parents did. Today, that's certainly no longer the case.

  Raj Chetty

  Dream, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an afternoon to make a record. Punk isn't a music that you think of as chance-based, but exigency has a lot to do with it.

  David Grubbs

  Thinking, People, Together

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm actually an impatient person. I'm very suited for television because with the process, it's six weeks from the time you come up with an episode until when it airs. We can't drag it out that long. With film, and this is not a profound observation or an original one; it can go on endlessly unless the movie's like incredibly topical. That's the challenge for me, as an impatient person who wants see things come to life. ... I mean, it's just this feeling I get when I see a movie I love.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mean, Long, Profound

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'm with the president nearly every day. We engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world. I deliver to him this exquisite product that's been developed by my officers. He engages in a way that shows his understanding of the complexity. He asks really hard questions. He delivers policy outcomes based on the information that we provide him. My observation of the president is that, we deal in serious matters.

  Mike Pompeo

  Understanding, President, World

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• My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has to face are as professional and as thoughtful as the American people deserve. The president's handling these duties in a way that I'm incredibly proud of to be part of his team.

  Mike Pompeo

  Team, Thoughtful, People

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• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Islamic, Mean

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• Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Book, Analysis

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• In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Baseball, Country, Kids

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• Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Hands, Genius

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• Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Character, Might Use

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• I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

  Bill Bryson

  Stories, Use, World

  "Travels with a super hero". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2006.

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• I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

  Lee Child

  Military, Two, Trying

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