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Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.

Joseph M. Juran

Action, Results, Stunning

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Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

John Wooden

Team, Improving Yourself

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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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Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.

Mooji

Running, Knowing, Lazy

Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.320, New Harbinger Publications

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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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Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.

Gary L. Francione

Animal, Matter, Be Kind

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My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.

John Ruskin

Nature, Roots, Light

John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.44, Psychology Press

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For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Edwin Way Teale

Pace, Trekking, Snail

Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

Norman Ralph Augustine

Family, Daughter, Technology

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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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Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from them. It began with the invention of a possible world, or a fragment thereof, which was then compared by experimentation with the real world. And it was this constant dialogue between imagination and experiment that allowed one to form an increasingly fine-grained conception of what is called reality.

Francois Jacob

Real, Drawing, Imagination

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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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Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

Reading, Light, Darkness

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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 learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Desi Arnaz

Father, Struggle, Years

Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is by listening and observing not only to life around you but to the other people who are in the room. It's not about a sort of, you know, a sense that you have to be democratic about these things, it's a question of creativity that the process of making theatre is a collaborative process, and it is not in, it is not a question of, you know, I have no interest in paying lip service to it, for me it's absolutely fundamental.

Simon McBurney

Moving, Creativity, Complicated World

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Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wise, Listening, Seeing

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By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.

Garry Kasparov

Years, Games, Foundation

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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Mary Oliver

Thinking, Feelings, Lines

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When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Investing, Return, Portfolios

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In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

Benjamin Rush

Kings, Father, Men

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One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

Andre Suares

People, Humanity, Being Different

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If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

Anthony Burgess

Depth, Abiding, Behaviour

"The Wanting Seed".

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One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

Alec Wilkinson

Inspirational, Funny, Ice

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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.

Ruth Behar

Reality, Voice, Roots

Ruth Behar (2014). “The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart”, p.26, Beacon Press

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