Observers Quotes - Page 12

• Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Ideas, Solitude, Passionate

  "Interview With Dr. Laurie Helgoe, Author of Introvert Power". Interview with Sophia Dembling, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2009.

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• Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

  Leonard Susskind

  Reality, Special, Different

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• I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

  Lucy Walker

  Believe, Responsibility, Objectivity

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• I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

  Allison Joseph

  Writing, Self, Judging

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dark, Power, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, House, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.

  Jean-Martin Charcot

  Mind, Wish, Tabula Rasa

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• A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Animal, Space, Brain

  "Economics and Ecology". Book by Kenneth Boulding, p. 225, 1966.

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• I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.

  Yoko Ono

  Husband, Thinking, Way

  "15 Minutes With Yoko Ono". Interview with Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

  Aziz Ansari

  Giving, Advice, Curious

  "Aziz Ansari Wants to Help Men Date Better". Interview with Dan Reilly, www.esquire.com. December 28, 2013.

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• An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Keys, Hair

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

  Melody Carlson

  Heart, Laughing, Dying

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• 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

  Children, War, Views

  "Memoirs of a Boy Soldier author takes on UN role". www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2007.

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• Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

  Jared Kushner

  Novelists, Want

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• I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

  Jonathan Winters

  Mother, Children, Shopping

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• On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moving, Science, Numbers

  "Review of Cosmology," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, p. 107-8, 1948.

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• What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

  Stephen King

  Depression, Reality, Glasses

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why.

  M. C. Escher

  Years, Light, Trying

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• Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Perspective, Sound, Language

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Errors

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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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

  Children, Forgiving, Excellent

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• Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

  Joe Haldeman

  Buddhism, Reality, Way

  Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• 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 King, Jr.

  White, Good Man, Ready

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• I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

  Isabel Lucas

  Quiet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Speed, Century, Description

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