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• I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education.

  Noam Chomsky

  Needs, Originality, Inspired

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

  Freida Pinto

  People, Way, Judgment

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

  May Sinclair

  Thrill, Quiet, Excitement

  May Sinclair (1915). “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium”

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• I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on the planet who have devoted their lives to preserving whatever it is they're passionate about. I want to be them. I am one of them. I just have a different outlet and final outcome as an artist than many of them would. For them, the process can just end in holding on to it, just knowing they've got it tucked away in their private collection. I value that so much, but I feel the conversation dies in a way there.

  Dario Robleto

  Artist, Knowing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music.

  Steve Gunn

  Song, Kids, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We need to realize that we are observers and creators, and in every moment that we are observing our world, we're constantly remaking it at every instant, and that we have to understand too that every last thought we have, every judgment we hold, is having an effect whether it's conscious or not. So of course the most important thing of all is to be aware of what we are thinking and to realize it has an effect on the world around us.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Thinking, Important, World

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

  Amy Waldman

  Character, Trying, Novelists

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• I am super inspired by the Grand Canyon. Looking at nature and observing what it does even looking at a little seed, is impressive. I have a couple of plants at home and you see how they grow ... it's just like, "Whoa!" I'm really inspired by the newness of humans and nature, I think it's really cool.

  Kissey

  Couple, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Love Is, Climbing, Weight

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13,2012.

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• Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Comedian, Opinion

  Source: www.flickreel.com

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• I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

  Danny Pudi

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• My grandfather was an exceptional entrepreneur and philanthropist who moved from Palestine to Jordan and created an amazing group of companies. In a world where women were expected to get married and stay at home, he encouraged me from a very young age to get involved in business and work. He always took me with him on visits and I would spend my holidays at his office, running errands for him and observing what he did each day.

  Hanan Kattan

  Running, Home, Holiday

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Barry Manilow was very special for me. We've had many collaborations since then and all have been equally rewarding and musical. I've learned so much from him. I like being a student around him; observing him in his environment.

  Dave Koz

  Musical, Special, Collaboration

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century hurts and distress. The unbelieving world-your neighbors, the guy at the gas station, the postman, the lady at the cleaners, your boss at work-is observing the way we undergo our trials.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Guy, Boss

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• When you are influential and highly respected, people tend to tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear. They are seeking your approval, or they flatter you. Unfortunately, this creates a gap between what you hear and reality. If you find yourself in that situation, you will need to work extra hard to get the people close to you to speak honestly into your life. And you will have to become highly intentional in observing and listening.

  John C. Maxwell

  Reality, People, Listening

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• We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

  John Grierson

  Art, Believe, Cinema

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.146, Univ of California Press

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• My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Thinking, Ifs And

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Doe, Would Be

  Source: www.kateyschultz.com

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• I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.

  Joel Edgerton

  People, Judging, Serving Others

  "Sundance: Joel Edgerton & Teresa Palmer Talk ‘Wish You Were Here’ & VOD Vs. Theatrical Release". Interview with John Lichman, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

  David Icke

  Gone, Consciousness, Infinite

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Ignorance, Rights, Law

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

  Edward Tufte

  Art, Information, Common

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• In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you start revising. And as you revise you always are making it better by being specific and by observing more closely, which actually is really the same as saying you love your characters. The close observation equals love of them.

  George Saunders

  Love You, Character, Cartoon

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

  Cate Blanchett

  Order, Actors, Living My Life

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.

  Tom Hardy

  Jobs, Ambition, Acceptance

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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