Observing Quotes - Page 2

• I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

  Amanda Burton

  Thinking, People, Locks

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• I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Kids, People, Comedian

  "Redbook" Magazine, January 2006.

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• As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.

  Cher Wang

  Humility, Entrepreneur, Next

  "HTC's Cher Wang on Innovation and the 'It' Product". Interview with Jason Fell, www.entrepreneur.com. July 13, 2012.

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• We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Vision, Remember, Awe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 65, 1799.

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• He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course. This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Love Life, Passion

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• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

  Graham Greene

  Party, Inspiration, People

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• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  Venerable Bede

  Teaching, Writing, Discipline

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• Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

  Gao Xingjian

  Yield, Literature, Starting

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• Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

  James Payn

  Humble, Opportunity, Oatmeal

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

  Hugh Leonard

  Grief, Difficult, Feels

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• I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

  Rihanna

  Reading, Smell, People

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• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Country, Practice, World

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• The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moon, Stories, Earth

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• The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out.

  George Carlin

  Friday, Christian, Monday

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• In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and justify our actions. Having seen this in ourselves, let's experiment with doing deeds without any words of explanation whatever. We note our sense of fear that people will misunderstand why we have done what we have done. We seek to allow God to be our justifier.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Done, Deeds

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Eye, Men, Use

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1885). “Bye-path Meadow”

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• I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve.

  Wayne Dyer

  Practice, Patient, Witness

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 09, 2011

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• The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Perspective, Inability, Observation

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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• It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

  Katharine Kolcaba

  Life, Health, Nursing

  Katharine Kolcaba (2003). “Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research”, p.20, Springer Publishing Company

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• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  Leonard Susskind

  Philosophy, Science, Reality

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• I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Believe, Science

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

  James B. Weaver

  Powerful, Political, Suffering

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• I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

  Zoe Kravitz

  People, Watches, Cafes

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• It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Men, Inquiring

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.

  Dean Radin

  Events, Outcomes, Influence

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