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• If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Party, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

  Lauren Conrad

  Tools, World

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• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

  America, Political, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Nature, Weakness, Humans

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 7, 1799.

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• I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

  Annie Lennox

  Visuals, Persons

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• Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

  John Scalzi

  Fear, Waiting, Energy

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• He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Play

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 197

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• Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

  Mark Steel

  People, Puddles, Fetch

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• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Ideas, People

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• Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

  Loren Eiseley

  Loneliness, Creativity, Dark

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• The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing that no longer fragments the observer from what's observed; a new capacity for stillness that no longer fragments who we really are from what's emerging; and a new capacity for creating alternative realities that no longer fragments the wisdom of the head, heart and hand.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Heart, Reality, Hands

  Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.211, Crown Business

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• What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Events, Roles

  Wolfgang Pauli (2008). “Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Band IV, Teil III: 1955–1956. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.o. Volume IV, Part III: 1955–1956”, p.148, Springer-Verlag

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• The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Force, Observation

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• Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enable the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are both essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Law, Essence

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.19, Routledge

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• In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Experience, Observation

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• Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.

  Kedar Joshi

  Space, Illusion, Gravity

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• Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

  Mark Twain

  Funny Inspirational, Men, Differences

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.19, Univ of California Press

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• Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

  George Meredith

  Knowledge, Blow, Men

  George Meredith, Maura C. Ives (1998). “George Meredith's Essay On Comedy and Other New Quarterly Magazine Publications: A Critical Edition”, p.120, Bucknell University Press

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• If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

  Paul Strisik

  Cameras, Add, Facts

  Paul Strisik, Charles Movalli (1980). “The art of landscape painting”

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• My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Psychics, Long, Path

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• I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

  Christine Feehan

  Art, Research, Rooms

  Christine Feehan (2003). “The Twilight Before Christmas: A Novel”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Character, Thinking, Entering

  William Alfred Quayle (1900). “A Hero and Some Other Folks”

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• But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.

  Hodding Carter III

  People, Isms, Obsessed

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• Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fall, Men, Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Long, United States, Rewards

  "The United States". The New York magazine article on November 15, 1971, reprinted in "A View from the Stands", 1986.

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