Someone Who Observes Quotes

#1. I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

Marina And The Diamonds

#2. I'm just someone who observes a lot.

Nadine Labaki

#3. Seneca describes this in an extraordinary passage, in which he astutely observes that most human suffering relates to rumination about the past or worry about the future, and that nobody confines his concern to the present moment.

Anonymous

#4. In the words of Lynne McTaggart: Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

Dan Brown

#5. Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

H.G.Wells

#6. If one observes a rainbow, they may see the road through time. -Excerpt, Dragon Knight's Sword

Mary Morgan

#7. Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

#8. Song falls silent, music is dumb,
But the air burns with their fragrance,
And white winter, on its knees,
Observes everything with reverent attention.

Anna Akhmatova

#9. What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

Berenice Abbott

#10. Kierkegaard so shrewdly observes, one is condemned to live it forward and review it backward.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

Confucius

#12. I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It's only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

Richard Bach

#14. We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.

David Zindell

#15. Yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.

Edmund Blair Bolles

#16. The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from employees of the parents to the bosses of the parents.

Jennifer Senior

#17. Lieutenant Dallas has just given you a brief demonstration of why she's one of the most valuable assets of the NYPSD. She observes, deduces, and reports with accuracy.

J.D. Robb

#18. The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.

Lao-Tzu

#19. He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin

#20. The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say we have discovered the truth when we reach agreement.

Stephen Batchelor

#21. An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Anton Chekhov

#22. Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.

Gregory Maguire

#23. Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

Matthew Tindal

#24. Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

Dave Barry

#25. In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

Charles D. Broad

#26. As Boettner so aptly observes, for the Calvinist, the atonement "is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge that goes only half-way across." p. 41

David N. Steele

#27. The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

Max Ernst

#28. We shall understand why a Christian observes laws: For the peace of the world, out of gratitude to God, and for a good example that others may be attracted to the Gospel.

Martin Luther

#29. What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.

Annie Besant

#30. Process of comparison and condemnation prevents you from observing, studying. So a real student is one who observes everything in life, outwardly as well as inwardly, without comparing, approving, or condemning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#31. calling something 'blessed' has become the go-to term for those who want to boast about an accomplishment while pretending to be humble," observes writer Jessica Bennett.[12]

John Ortberg

#32. But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#33. The real reason we have faces," Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world.

Eli Gottlieb

#34. There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

Hector Hugh Munro

#35. A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.

Lord Chesterfield

#36. Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto Von Bismarck