Observing Quotes

293 Observing quotes by 272 unique authors

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
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's… — Louisa May Alcott
Observing and understanding are two different things. — Mary E. Pearson
I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed,… — Wendelin Van Draanen
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Oneâ€™s lover is oneâ€™s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a… — Philippa Gregory
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and imagesâ€¦ It is not a conscious recording of… — William Carlos Williams
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation… — Anne Lamott
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel. — Chuck Klosterman
â€ŽSome of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see. — Thomas Jefferson
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through… — David Wong
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity… — Eudora Welty
I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for… — Michelle Moran
By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock… — Albert Hofmann
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the… — Haruki Murakami
I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite… — Roald Dahl
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.… — Albert Einstein
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite â€˜telescope envyâ€™… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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