Observe Quotes

781 Observe quotes by 579 unique authors

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. — Michael Connelly
Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living… — Temple Grandin
You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his… — Flannery O'Connor
Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not… — Muriel Barbery
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . .… — Markus Zusak
I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night… — Hermann Hesse
Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have… — Niccolo Machiavelli
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives… — Frances Mayes
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago.… — Wilhelm Reich
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe… — Thomas Mann
Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations. — Mark Epstein
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is… — Spencer W. Kimball
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who… — Lynne Truss
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves. — John Calvin
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on… — William Shakespeare
I observe and remain silent. — Elizabeth I
..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you... — Elizabeth Kostova
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on… — Lisa Unger
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights. — Jane Austen

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