Observer Quotes

253 quotes by 219 authors

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees;… — Radhanath Swami
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or… — Richard Bach
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. — Robert Henri
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There… — Robert Henri
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer… — Susanna Kaysen
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every… — Thomas Mann
You are not an observer, you are a participant. — Nhat Hanh
When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him… — Franz Kafka
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it... — Nicholas Sparks
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can… — Elliot Perlman
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an… — Adam Smith
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be… — Alain de Botton
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky… — Mark Rothko
Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull,… — Michael Cunningham
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history. — Pentti Linkola
I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've… — Fernando Pessoa
Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude… — Franz Kafka

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