The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“Whoever came up with the term “Funny Bone” must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not funny at all…” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's human tendency to treat the people who you've wronged badly though, isn't it? Easier to dismiss them if you… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wealthy don't cry over the fact that they are wealthy as long as the poor cry about the poverty that surrounds… — Morph Vishn Copy Share Image
Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes… — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered… — John Stilgoe Copy Share Image
I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“And he wondered, suddenly, what sort of divide it created between them, that he knew pieces of her that she had never… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The world is evolving, and there is an acceptance of all beliefs, in my observation. — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true. — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
You've got to know who your dealing with,cause if you don't...it'll eat you up inside, when you find out who you're dealing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image