Observing Quotes - Page 16

• I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. It makes you feel so minute. The only thing as big as that are your thoughts about it, which can expand exponentially while your physical self is just trapped. It's a pretty awesome feeling, in the original sense of the word.

  Feist

  Beautiful, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fire, Long, Understanding

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Christmas, Growing Up, Holiday

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.

  Chris Rock

  Two, Parent, World

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

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• Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Judging, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

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• When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

  Harold Evans

  Two, Stanford University, People

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

  Haim Harari

  Art, Physics, Neutrinos

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• Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.

  Al Gore

  Philosophical, Practice, Special

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• Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

  Jeff Cooper

  Doe, Action, Appearance

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press

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• I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forward to seeing you again on the gemba.

  Taiichi Ohno

  People, Looks, Helping

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• Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.

  John Dewey

  Alertness, Open Minded, Process

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.135, SIU Press

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• I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.

  Martin Luther

  Healing, Doctors, Skills

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.317

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• Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

  Warren Buffett

  Night, Differences, Emts

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• A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that - every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Attitude, Yesterday, Looks

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• The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Mean, Science, Wish

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”

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• What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That there should be a Company, and that it should be the Company of the Mission, composed of poor men, and that it should be entirely dedicated to that purpose, going here and there through hamlets and villages, leaving the towns behind-something that's never been done-and going to announce the Gospel only to persons who are poor; yet, those are our Rules!

  Vincent de Paul

  Son, Men, Leaving

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• No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Study, Awareness, Process

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Principles, Might

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• ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

  William James

  Believe, Dark, Opportunity

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• I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the hurry? I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy.

  Magda Gerber

  Teacher, Attitude, Educational

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• Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what's happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.

  Deepak Chopra

  Kindness, Understanding, Body

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• My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

  Andy Warhol

  Running, Fascination, Belief

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• A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mean, Mind, Doe

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “‌‌Bases of Yoga: Art of living”, p.3, editionNEXT.com

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• After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.

  Norman Macbeth

  Years, Fruit Flies, Despair

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