Observant Quotes

• Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Science, Experience, Scientific Method

  The Gods

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• Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2404, e-artnow

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• I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

  Ellie Goulding

  Attention, Pay, Behavior

  "Artist to Know: Ellie Goulding". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2011.

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• An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Way, Should

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen.

  Vicki Robin

  Letting Go, Self, Opening Up

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• The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

  Julia Ward Howe

  School, Faces, Taught

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• The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Eye, Biblical

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• My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Introverted, Orderly

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.68, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

  Rumi

  Heart, Action, Moments

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.59, Lulu.com

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• [On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Art, Spring

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• At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Giving, Peaceful

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria

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• On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Art, Pain

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.756, Wordsworth Editions

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• For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

  Beatrix Potter

  Children, Hands, Imagination

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• So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

  Michelangelo

  Death, Numbers, Widows

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• The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Struggle, Men

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “The First and Last Freedom”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Being open and observant of people and the world around you is really important. People have the same desires and needs online as they do offline. The way that people are stays constant. You can change the format, make it easier for them to communicate or use photos instead of words but human necessities never change.

  Caterina Fake

  People, Important, Desire

  "The Entrepreneur Behind Flickr Opens Up About Past Mistakes, Lessons Learned and Her Latest Venture". Interview with Nina Zipkin, www.entrepreneur.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Memories, Writing, Long

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• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Spirit, Assertive, Cautious

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• I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

  David McCord

  Moving, Islands, Rocks

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• I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

  Dick Schaap

  Clever, Games, Hook

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• The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

  Meir Kahane

  Target, Torah, This Life

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Brother, Smart

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• We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Views, Film

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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