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• I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Watches, Looks

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.14, Hamilton Books

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• I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Ease, Grass

  Walt Whitman, Clarence Merton Babcock (1969). “Leaves of grass: selected poetry and prose”

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

  Frank Herbert

  Missing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.50, Penguin

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• Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.

  John Wooden

  Open Minded

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Inspiration, Suffering, Events

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Observing and understanding are two different things.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Two, Understanding, Different

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.98, Macmillan

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• A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Average, Want, Habit

  Notes on Nursing Chapter XIII

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• Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

  Byron Katie

  Appreciation, Fun, Positivity

  "Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, 2002.

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• Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i.e., consistent).

  Ayn Rand

  Issues, Evil, Consistent

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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• Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

  Wayne Dyer

  Worldly

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 29, 2011

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• Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Positive, Powerful, Mean

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “When Everything Changes, Change Everything: In a time of turmoil, a pathway to peace”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Patterns, Forgotten

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• I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Mean, Giving

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• Spend some time observing babies. They don't work; they poop in their pants, and they have no goals other than to expand, grow and explore this amazing world. Be like that baby you once were, in terms of being joyful.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Baby

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.

  Washington Irving

  Children, Book, Character

  Washington Irving (1840). “History of New York. Sketch book. Bracebridge Hall”, p.185

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• I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Drawing, Twenties, Youth

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• The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Men, Doe, Found

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• Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go.

  Marci Shimoff

  Letting Go, Moving, Practice

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• It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.

  Tara Stiles

  Yoga, Self, Practice

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• In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

  Dennis Prager

  Political, Debate, Lifetime

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• Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I’m learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.

  Eric Allen

  Inspirational, Teacher, Gratitude

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• I'm really proud of you for having come this far - every single one of you, wherever you are, you're on your way - you are getting there! And - don't worry so much! Just - that's what we need to stop doing - stop worrying so much, and start observing a little bit more.

  Ysabella Brave

  Worry, Needs, Proud

  "Self Esteem". YouTube video, www.youtube.com. May 31, 2007.

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• In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Giving, Sabbath, Imitating

  Lauren F. Winner (2007). “Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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• I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

  Elena Mukhina

  Neutrality, Elements, Saws

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• When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Teacher, Distance, Years

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