Observers Quotes - Page 10

• Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

  Sara Genn

  Art, Craftsman, Understatement

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• Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Egotism, Detached

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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• Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.

  Ada Limon

  Moving, Kids, Firefly

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• 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

  Mind, World, Painting

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.7

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• There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faces, Prophecy, Countenance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.343

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• In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Science, Men

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• In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Moving, Car, Gone

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .

  John Maynard Keynes

  Atheist, Character, Escaping

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.

  Randall Jarrell

  Interesting, Upside Down, Poet

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens" (p. 64), 1969.

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• I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

  Paul Gauguin

  Promise, Watches, Might

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

  Galileo Galilei

  Giving, Age, Firsts

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• China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Running, Giving, World

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world, I felt like that brought him to a place where he thought he had to be an observer - externally and internally.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Angel, Men, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• 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 C Humes

  Inspiring, Leadership, Secret

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• The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

  Patanjali

  Ignorance, World, Way

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• The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Independent, Science, Space

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• A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers.

  Ernest Sosa

  Crazy, Archer, Hunting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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

  Running, Ideas, Together

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm an amused observer. I don't bet or gamble; that's the worst thing.

  Pablo Francisco

  Worst, Amused, Gamble

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Objectivity, Designer, Graphic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.

  David Hawkins

  Levels, Consciousness, Significant

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• When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Character, Tunnels

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place on this planet to "create a better life for all" is functioning in a way that generates that outcome.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Outcomes, Way, Better Life

  "Overcoming Separation Theology. Neale Donald Walsch - Author: Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the things that quantum physicists are talking about today, like non-locality and the observer effect, are things the yogis have been saying for thousands of years.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Teaching, Talking, Years

  "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

  Mark Hoppus

  Ideas, Albums, Band

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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