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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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• I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

  Eddie Murphy

  Attitude, Moving, Voice

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Feb 01, 2014

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• Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

  Bruce Lee

  Giving Up, Thinking, Technique

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.78, Tuttle Publishing

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• To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.

  Seth Klarman

  Order, Long, Appreciate

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• Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Crazy, Feelings, Next

  "Dustin Moskovitz: Why I Left Facebook To Start Asana" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and fussing and scheming. When his interest is diverted inwards he naturally relaxes his hold - his stranglehold - on the outer world. Having withdrawn his capital and paid it into his own Central Bank (where it appreciates to infinity), he has nothing to lose out there and no reason for interfering. He knows how to let things be and work out in their own time. He's in no hurry. Knowing the Self, he can hardly fail to trust its products.

  Douglas Harding

  Men, Self, Knowing

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• I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

  Andre Kertesz

  Eye, Elements, Angle

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• Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Peace, Government, Law

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• When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton ... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Mean, Science, Purpose

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

  Margery Allingham

  Mistake, Fall, Views

  Margery Allingham (2015). “Dancers in Mourning”, p.31, Ipso Books

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• In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Favors

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• Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Doors, Mind

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• Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye.

  J. H. Plumb

  Truth, Eye, Science

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• I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

  Socrates

  Eye, Heroic Deeds, Soul

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• The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Song, Years

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Philosophy, Cooking, Kitchen

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• The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Wind, Sea, Bird

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• The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fire, Vanity, Years

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

  Julio Cortazar

  Aquariums, Movement, Hours

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.620, Everyman's Library

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• Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.

  Karina Longworth

  Sex, Lying, Action

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• At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

  Egon Schiele

  Philosophy, Flower, Medicine

  Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

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• Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Printed Word, Yesterday

  "Public Opinion". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.

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• When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Needs, Probing

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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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