Close Observation Quotes

#1. I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it ... but the women work most for it.

Frances Harper

#2. From my close observation of writers ... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Isaac Asimov

#3. All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Howell Raines

#4. My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.

Chiang Kai-shek

#5. Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.

James J. Kilpatrick

#6. After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#7. Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

Susanna Clarke

#8. The police in Punjab has been politicised; it has become a wing of the Akali Dal.

Preneet Kaur

#9. Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.

William Shakespeare

#10. A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

Honore De Balzac

#11. If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.

David Mitchell

#12. To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

Karl Malone

#13. There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

Kate Reardon

#14. stability of the capitalist system is shaken by the alternation of attempts to stop economic progress in order to protect old investments and tremendous collapses when those attempts fail.

Jeremy Rifkin

#15. Theirs was a long, complicated story with a monster and a knight. What made their story unique was that these two players were the same person.

Aleatha Romig

#16. I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

Roland Barthes

#17. It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt. Eve Dallas on a drunk fall off the roof

J.D. Robb

#18. Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

Michael Connelly

#19. The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Del Close

#20. Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something.

John Hannah

#21. I guess what's so frustrating about the drug movement is that it's not much of a movement that's too many stoners involved.

Bill Maher

#22. I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Tim Tebow

#23. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

John Muir

#24. Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Plato

#25. Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness

John Paul Warren

#26. The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two or three players and is happy to give an assist to a teammate, it makes him more dangerous than ever before.

Michael Laudrup

#27. All things are complete within ourselves.

Mencius

#28. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Ken Kesey