Quotes of: Observer Keyword

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown

Pierre: or, the Ambiguities

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom

I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.

Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Venom

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

Variable Star

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.

White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

What Is This Thing Called Science?

Remedy Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it. Hazrat Ali

The Way of the Sufi

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Walden and Other Writings

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the ...

James Buchan

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can...

Michael Behe

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are bett...

Robert Gottlieb

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

Middlemarch

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

Meditations

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Reflections

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

Jean-André de Luc