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• I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created by people who aren't writers and they're second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it's not. And you are passively observing this; watching an amateur production of nothing. It's like a photo of a drawing of a hologram.

  Dana Gould

  Real, Thinking, Drawing

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• Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Mistake, Men

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 15,

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• The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.

  Rebel Wilson

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think he offended people because his message was to love your neighbour as yourself; in other words, no one is better than somebody else. He embraced all people, whether it was a beggar on the street or a prostitute, and he admonished a group of Jews who were not observing the precepts of the Torah. So he rattled a lot of people's cages.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.

  Srinivasa Ramanujan

  Writing, Numbers, Blood

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• In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

  Charles Darwin

  Nice, Race, Differences

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.233, Diversion Books

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• Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Philosophical, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.131, 谷月社

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• For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of fact, this condition does not come under my special medical interests or I would have had it solved long ago. … The condition has its compensations: one is not yanked from interesting work to go to the jungles of Burma ... one avoids all kinds of deadly committee meetings, etc.

  Fuller Albright

  Past, Long Ago, Years

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• You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.

  Thomas Huxley

  Book, Ignorant, May

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1877). “American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.153

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• The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

  Alexander Theroux

  Husband, Distance, Men

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• No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

  David Hume

  Agreement, Perfect, Doubt

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Recovery, Reality, Space

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• If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe within us, is a reflection of the universe we see out our eyes.

  Suzy Kassem

  Eye, Heart, Night

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• I’m a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.

  Norman Reedus

  Quiet Person, Spend Time, End Times

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• Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

  T. Harv Eker

  Running, Past, Choices

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 19, 2012

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• A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

  John Steinbeck

  Stars, Loneliness, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.441, Penguin

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• On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reality, Spirit, Stage

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1861). “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”, p.17

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• Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Children, Teaching, Example

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.76, Multnomah

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• We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

  Confucius

  Life, Understanding, Behaviour

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• So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Law, Long, Mind

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Education Association of the United States (1979*). “Building networks for nonviolent social change: report of the Fourth Annual Summer Institute on Nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-August 2, 1980 [i.e. 1979]”

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• In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Running, Long

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• That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

  Mark Twain

  Editors, Clothes, Sitting

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3989, Delphi Classics

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• The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Offering, Doe

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