The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into… — Bernie Krause Copy Share Image
You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system.… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
I've gotten a lot of exposure for my writing. My writing blog has gotten over 1000 unique hits since the Observer piece… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer… — John Green Copy Share Image
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness. — Andrei Linde Copy Share Image
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling,… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul Copy Share Image