Observers Quotes - Page 2

• I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

  Derek Fisher

  Inspirational, Basketball, Way

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Sadness, Garden, Views

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• Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

  Hayden Christensen

  Views, Understanding, Trying

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

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• It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

  Henry Rollins

  Sorrow, Elation, Care

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Years, Essence, Drunk

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• Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Abuse, Rivals, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.53

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• One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.

  William Allingham

  Three, Seeming

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Light, Sight

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.120, Canongate Books

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• One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

  Warren Buffett

  Responsibility, Long, Effort

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• The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

  Franz Kafka

  Soul, Doe, Would Be

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.7

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• A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

  Mark Rothko

  Eye, Companionship, Sensitive

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.57, Yale University Press

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• I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Thinking, Issues

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• The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Perspective, Sublime, Sun

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.19, New World Library

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• When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational Life, Meditation, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1953-1955): What Are You Seeking?”, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

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• Is it possible to observe without the observer?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, p.356, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

  Jean Houston

  Cosmos, Moments, Passive

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• Who will observe the observers?

  Arthur Eddington

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• Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Natural, Social, Explanation

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• If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Perspective, Facts, Events

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• There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Two, Details

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• Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Looks, Fiction

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.24, Del Rey

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• My approach is that we are not searching for experiences here. We are trying to know the one who experiences all experiences. Our search is for the witness. Who is this observer? Who is this consciousness? Sometimes it feels sad, sometimes it feels happy; sometimes it is so high, flying in the sky, and sometimes so down. Who is this watcher of all these games? - high and low, happy, unhappy, in heaven and hell. Who is this watcher? To know this watcher is to know God. And you are already it - just a little awakening is needed... no search but only awakening.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Games

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

  Steve Allen

  Swimming, Thinking, Animal

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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