Observation Quotes

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

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

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.