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• Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

  Jane Yolen

  Needs, Levels, Get Up

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• The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.

  Paul Davies

  Reality, Energy, Patterns

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• Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Real, Depiction

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

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• One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Israel, Energy, Results

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• I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

  Doug Stanhope

  Life, Player, Looks

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• It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

  Brassai

  Photographer, Insight, Vocation

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• Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photograph, Wells

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• I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the distance one often feels when looking at landscape photographs... The longer I work, the more important it is to me to make photographs that tell my story as a participant, and not just an observer of the land.

  Mark Klett

  Distance, Land, Wish

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• It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Light

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• There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

  Zack Snyder

  Moving, Museums, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've gotten a lot of exposure for my writing. My writing blog has gotten over 1000 unique hits since the Observer piece (quite a lot as before it was something like 20 people a day if I was lucky.) But more importantly the coverage exposed me to and so has allowed me to connect with a lot of new people I really enjoy interacting with.

  Marie Calloway

  Writing, Unique, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer so sympathetic that his language appears to be Aschenbach's own, the other of which is superficially celebratory (except at the moment of moralistic condemnation) but undercuts Aschenbach by means of an ironic detachment.

  Philip Kitcher

  Mean, Narrative Voice, Two

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

  Guy Maddin

  Black And White, Looks, Static

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea of a celebrity endorsing a presidential candidate is nothing new, but the full-throated endorsement for Senator Bernie Sanders from one of the country`s biggest hip hop stars had surprised some political observers.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Stars, Ideas

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.

  Charles R. Morris

  Struggle, Different, Prejudice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In a surprising unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the police cannot search what is on your phone without a warrant. Court observers said a unanimous decision from this court was slightly less likely than Scalia winning the annual Supreme Court wet robe contest.

  Peter Sagal

  Winning, Phones, Decision

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

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• Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

  Judy Blume

  Details, Attention, Pay

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

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• I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

  Charlize Theron

  People, Actors, Want

  "Charlize Theron and Paul Haggis on In the Valley of Elah". Press conference, movieweb.com. September 11, 2007.

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• I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  People, Directors, Film

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I do not believe so many Turks suspect my activities. The idea that this movement of volunteers is suspected by many Turks arises in the same way and for the same reasons that the world hears more about those Muslims whom the media call radicals. Since those who give this impression are extremely loud, some observers can be deceived.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Believe, Media, Ideas

  "Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

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• By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Behavior, Conditioning, Observing

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• There's no question to my mind and I think no question to any objective observer's mind that the DNC was supporting Hillary Clinton and was at opposition to our campaign. So I'm not quite shocked by this. And that is why many, many months ago I made it clear that I thought Debbie Wasserman Schultz should resign, should step down.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Mind, Months

  "Bernie Sanders Supporters Rally Amid Controversy Over DNC's Role". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 24, 2016.

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• Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths.

  Catherine Wilson

  Snow, Common Sense, Water

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's seen by many observers as a kind of racial distancing. Often using that article seems unnecessary. [But] it is serving some function, which is to represent a group collectively rather than as individuals.

  Ben Zimmer

  Focus, Groups, Use

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cutting, Guilt, Mindfulness

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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