Observers Quotes - Page 17

• Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Eye, Meditation

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• In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Thinking, Stories, Might

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.15, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

  Peter Bichsel

  Teacher, Conception

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• You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

  Billy West

  Kind, Observation

  "Billy West: The Many (Cartoon) Voices In His Head". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 15, 2010.

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• The number of the fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously known stars in number more than ten times.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Eye, Numbers

  "The Essential Galileo".

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• The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Emotional, Effort

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• I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.

  Lily King

  Three, Human Nature, My Family

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• I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Thinking, Recipes, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

  Doug Stanhope

  Life, Player, Looks

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• American press, like the press in many countries, acts like a cheerleader to our government rather than a critical observer. This is especially true, when it comes to foreign interventions. That means that when government leaders conclude that intervention in a foreign country is justified, the press rarely criticizes it. In fact, the press has been an enthusiastic cheerleader for many of our foreign interventions.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Country, Mean, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

  Brassai

  Photographer, Insight, Vocation

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• Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cutting, Guilt, Mindfulness

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's seen by many observers as a kind of racial distancing. Often using that article seems unnecessary. [But] it is serving some function, which is to represent a group collectively rather than as individuals.

  Ben Zimmer

  Focus, Groups, Use

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different way.

  Saschka Unseld

  Thinking, Different, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Israel, Energy, Results

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• Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although human beings have the capacity to develop scientific knowledge, it must be a very limited capacity because it is only done in very narrow and specific domains.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Would Be, Done

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Differences, Worry, Would Be

  Source: chomsky.info

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• There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Baby, Nice, Moving

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• Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

  Jane Yolen

  Needs, Levels, Get Up

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• Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six years, the child who was the outsider and observer. When I went off to Boston to act, I was very young - 10. And my parents didn't fear that. They had the respect to let me make my choices.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Growing Up, Boston

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• The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.

  Paul Davies

  Reality, Energy, Patterns

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• The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Wish, Want, Retrospect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Moral, Filmmaker, Critics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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