Top 100 Quotes About Observant
#1. I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
Beverly Cleary
#2. No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
Adam Mansbach
#3. I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.
Jan Brett
#4. I am rather observant, and have a habit of putting things together. I tell you that so that you may be careful when you don't want me to know a thing.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#5. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#6. Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers - in a word, better citizens
Mary Wollstonecraft
#7. The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
Meir Kahane
#8. So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert.
Shunryu Suzuki
#9. If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.
Rumi
#10. And if they tell you you're not a team player, just congratulate them on being so observant.
George Carlin
#11. As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.
Dinaw Mengestu
#12. The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.
Charles Spurgeon
#13. True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.
Chris Messner
#14. Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
Victor LaValle
#15. Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Joel Coen
#16. Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
Janet Fitch
#17. The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.
Rebel Wilson
#18. Since I've become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and themselves.
Lee Nichols
#19. For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
Beatrix Potter
#20. An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.
Charlotte Mason
#21. I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
Erica Jong
#22. The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.
Walt Disney
#23. The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth
but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge ...
Radclyffe Hall
#24. My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.
Joyce Carol Oates
#25. I'm not brave. I'm just incredibly observant." Steve has discovered that the more you observe, the more data you collect, the more patterns you see, and the more boldly you can act. As Steve would say, "This is a big idea!"3
Tina Seelig
#26. I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
Naomi Campbell
#27. Let observation with observant view,
Observe mankind from China to Peru.
Oliver Goldsmith
#28. Incoming!" yelled Poseidon.
They shifted-as much as they could in the cramped space-and Rocky landed in their midst.
"This is not a baby," Hades noticed "I think it's a rock."
He was observant that way.
Rick Riordan
#29. I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
Carrie Coon
#30. No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H.P. Lovecraft
#31. He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision
concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.
Agatha Christie
#32. I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant.
Mark Haddon
#33. I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.
Cindy Sherman
#34. The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!
David G. Jones
#35. Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.
Julianna Baggott
#36. I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.
Jon Heder
#37. What is more important than the meal? Doesn't the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal as a liturgical prescription? Isn't all of civilization apparent in these careful preparations, which consecrate the spirit's triumph over a raging appetite?
Paul Valery
#38. she described in a separate paragraph the Haredi community, and how within it religious practice was a total way of life. The distinction between what was rendered to Caesar and what to God was meaningless, much as it was for observant Muslims.
Ian McEwan
#39. I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.
Neill Blomkamp
#40. My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
Elayne Boosler
#41. Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#42. Why is it all Mr. Dibbler's films are set against the background of a world gone mad?" said the dwarf. Soll's eyes narrowed. "Because Mr. Dibbler," he growled, "is a very observant man." Dibbler
Terry Pratchett
#43. God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
Rumi
#44. I see that you're observant. You point out that I'm a Goth, I don't talk, and I have a twisted mind when it comes to writing. But, you guessed wrong when you said that I'm a devil worshiper. And I responded to you with a punch in the nose and said,"Don't fucking judge a book by it's cover!
Onyx
#45. My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#46. Like I said, I am typically an observant man. Sherlock Holmes and I, we could hang out.
Emma Chase
#47. There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
Alexander Payne
#48. It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#50. Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.
Philip Doddridge
#51. I'm thinking that, collectively, men are only slightly more observant than mollusks.
Will Thomas
#52. The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
Elliott Abrams
#53. A writer is always observant, of course ... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.
Carol Higgins Clark
#54. The intellectual or logical man, rather than the understanding or observant man, set himself to imagine designs - to dictate purposes to God.
Edgar Allan Poe
#55. I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.
Matthew Yglesias
#56. We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.
Allan Savory
#57. Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
Honore De Balzac
#58. Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
David McCord
#59. Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.
Rob Thomas
#60. The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V.S. Pritchett
#61. [On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
#62. Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Orison Swett Marden
#63. Things you'd never even seen with Finn could remind you of him, because he was the one person you'd want to show. "Look at that," you'd want to say, because you knew he would find a way to think it was wonderful. To make you feel like the most observant person in the world for spotting it.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#64. The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
Claudius Claudianus
#65. So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
Michelangelo
#66. She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw.
D.H. Lawrence
#67. So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.
Jeremy Taylor
#68. I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.
Drew Gooden
#69. ... a place does not have to be pristine to be worthy of protection and care... If people are open and observant, wilderness is all around us.
David B. Williams
#70. I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
Ellie Goulding
#71. I grinned into the phone. "You like to think about a man making sweet love to my mouth? I think you have a problem, Ella bella." "If you don't know by now that I love you long time, Ollie, you are not very observant.
Janelle Stalder
#72. Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.
Amy Tan
#73. The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.
Sam Harris
#74. Most sailors weren't observant in that fashion. Pity she wasn't most sailors. Jinan Seton was a fine specimen of masculinity.
Katharine Ashe
#75. A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
Sidney Crosby
#77. On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf
#78. Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.
Tim Federle
#79. I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
P. J. O'Rourke
#80. I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro
#81. I shall entrust my affair to God, for God is Observant of [His] worshippers.
Quran-Ghafir(44)
Anonymous
#82. I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Dick Schaap
#83. Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person.
Nin
#84. I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.
Sonia Sotomayor
#85. Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
Arthur Helps
#86. It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness
John Banville
#87. A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#88. I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.
Mindy Kaling
#89. When we want to engage, believe me, we can. And not only will we then make fewer mistakes of perception, but we will become the types of focused, observant people that we may have thought we were incapable of becoming
Anonymous
#90. If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
Raheel Farooq
#91. The holy book in the longest continuous use - the Talmud - commands the observant one to thank his maker every day that he was not born a woman.
Christopher Hitchens
#92. The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Joseph Jacobs
#93. Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.
John Grisham
#94. I was an observant but dreamy child. I had a lazy eye and wild curls.
Monique Roffey
#95. I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.
Erica Brown
#96. Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.
Walter Kirn
#97. Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds.
Susan Vreeland
#98. You're very observant, Jimmy," he said, and I thought it was pretty dumb to call it observant - it seemed obvious.
James Dashner
#100. However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.
Martin Luther
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