Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“We are not here as settlers, but rather as observers and sojourners. In our eyes, everything looks permanent, as though they would… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when… — Kate Capshaw 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
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you… — Anandmurti Gurumaa Copy Share Image
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
My grandfather was an exceptional entrepreneur and philanthropist who moved from Palestine to Jordan and created an amazing group of companies. In… — Hanan Kattan Copy Share Image
And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to… — Steve Gunn Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity of observing her through these delicate and pellucid teguments of the bodies of Insects acting according to her… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository. — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Observing our thoughts (which we do in the process of meditation) is the first step in understanding and, in the last analysis,… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Life can be a process of observing what we are interfering with, rather than interfering with what we are observing.” — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks. — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image