Observers Quotes

• Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed.

  Akiane Kramarik

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• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, States, Learners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants.

  Susan Dunlap

  Passion, Attractive, Found

  Susan Dunlap (1993). “Death and Taxes”, Dell Publishing Company

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• There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Atheism, Body

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Strange, Universe

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• Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

  Deepak Chopra

  Eye, Different, Spirit

  Twitter post from Nov 1, 2011

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• About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Animal, Wander

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• The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Watches, Firsts

  Adam Smith (2015). “The Money Game”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.81, New World Library

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• I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Committed, Backgrounds, Staying

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• 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

  Philosophy, Mean, Medicine

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• All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Simple, Greatness, Expression

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.4

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• The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Character, Choices, Soul

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.51, Harmony

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• 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.

  Nature, Native American, Owl

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• Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Observation

  Fifth Public Talk Saanen, July 26, 1970.

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• Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Sick, Unhappy

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• Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?

  Rajneesh

  Principles, Watches, Movement

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• No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Thinking, Views, Mind

  Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.

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• PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Philosophy, Pessimism

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Meaningful, Space, Independence

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

  Kim Stanley

  Clouds, Light, Rocks

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• People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Fall, Color

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

  Louis L'Amour

  Political, Democracy, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.180, Bantam

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• ...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Separation, Observation

  Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr

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