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• I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reality, Names, President

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• Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Real, Taken, People

  "Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki says the anime industry’s problem is that it’s full of anime fans" by Casey Baseel, soranews24.com. January 30, 2014.

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• That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Emotional, Mind, Looks

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• Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Comedian, Trying

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• I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company.

  Ivanka Trump

  Decision, Company, Brands

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort of thing, and a writer who has meant a great deal to me, is Henry James: there's a magical way that he has of turning the slightest gesture into a whole world of drama and feeling.

  Garth Greenwell

  Drama, Thinking, Weather

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

  Paul Auster

  Cities, Outsiders, Walks

  "An Interview with Paul Auster" by Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking about currently. And we all know that occupations, in military terms, comes down basically to policing, so you have an army basically functioning as a police force in these foreign territories as part of foreign policy. I'm not knocking that down, I'm just observing.

  Oren Moverman

  Military, Army, Past

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The very act of observing disturbs the system.

  Werner Heisenberg

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• When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Mind, Body, Spontaneous

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

  John Steinbeck

  Colony, Understood, Comprehending

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• Anyone observing U.S. politics in recent years could easily conclude that lying about having sex is a serious offense worthy of impeachment, while lying about taking the country to war is hardly worth mentioning.

  Linda McQuaig

  Country, Sex, War

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• I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.

  Olivia Stuck

  Successful, Careers, Trying

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

  Mark Twain

  Silly, Mean, Men

  Mark Twain (1925). “In defense of Harriet Shelley”

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• The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.

  Robert William Dale

  Children, Home, Men

  Robert William Dale (1903). “The Living Christ and the Four Gospels”

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• Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Song, New York, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.

  Yogi Berra

  Yankees, Years, Games

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• I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.

  Feist

  Beautiful, Weather, Giants

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I learnt a lot about coaching from observing other coaches. I would recommend that they attend coaching courses and coach development opportunities wherever possible

  Rebecca Bulley

  Opportunity, Coaching, Development

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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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• Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

  Aristotle

  Mean, May, Persuasion

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

  Eli Manning

  Sports, Football, Brother

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

  Marian Seldes

  People, Library, Actresses

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• If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.

  Gao Xingjian

  Writing, Reality, Self

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• It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

  Roger Penrose

  Brain, Might, Action

  Roger Penrose (2016). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.821, Oxford University Press

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