Just Observing Quotes

#1. Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.

Devin Nunes

#2. I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

Jason Molina

#3. I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

David Cronenberg

#4. 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

#5. I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

Kacey Musgraves

#6. She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#7. When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Tim O'Brien

#8. I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#9. Take just ONE minute today and look around you and within you and try for just that minute to understand the utterly amazing miracle and incredible perfection and beauty you are experiencing and observing!

John Assaraf

#10. That is their happiness: they see all life without observing it. They're buried in it like crabs in mud. Except men, of course. I am not in a mood, just yet, to talk of men.

John Gardner

#11. There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another
language was just there to hide their thoughts.

Terry Pratchett

#12. 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

#13. I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

Andre Kertesz

#14. 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.

Abraham Hicks

#15. The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#16. God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" [Psalm 14:1 KJV].

Billy Graham

#17. Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.

Gary L. Francione

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. You can learn so much just by observing.

Jessica Williams

#21. You can see a lot just by observing.

Yogi Berra

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

Amanda Burton

#23. I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

Sigourney Weaver

#24. Many people do not think very often about what they think about. They just let their thoughts live inside their head, without observing or questioning them.

Henry Cloud

#25. I'm really proud of you for having come this far - every single one of you, wherever you are, you're on your way - you are getting there! And - don't worry so much! Just - that's what we need to stop doing - stop worrying so much, and start observing a little bit more.

Ysabella Brave

#26. Or maybe I am just
outside enough,
being the footstool observing from the corner,
that I have a view of reality.

Thalia Chaltas

#27. Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

Ilchi Lee

#28. I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Desi Arnaz

#29. If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

Neill Blomkamp

#30. To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Steven Wright

#31. If we can predict, then we have observed enough to know that what we are observing does not just happen randomly; we have noted a pattern of regularities.

Hugh Coolican

#32. I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

Sofia Coppola

#33. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which boils down in popular discourse to saying that the very act of observing things changes the things you observe, works just as well, worryingly, when you look in the mirror.

N. T. Wright

#34. Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers

Philip Yancey

#35. Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

Frankie Cosmos

#36. 'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

Misty Copeland