Ethnographic Observation Quotes

#1. The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.

Jack Vance

#2. By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#3. Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. Even things that are true can be proved.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

Pinetop Perkins

#6. Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?

Jincy Willett

#7. You can throw a fit and cry at every bend in the road, or you can trust the process and learn to enjoy it.

Leigh Hershkovich

#8. Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

Susan Cain

#9. An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

Clarence Darrow

#10. If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

Krista Tippett

#11. There are accidents that last the whole life.

Albert Camus

#12. Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving. There was ruin everywhere and we should see more of it.

Rebecca West