The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.” — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things. — Matthew Tindal Copy Share Image
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
