Observation Quotes - Page 3

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

A. Lee Martinez

Learn to see what you are looking at.

Christopher Paolini

Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.

There are many, many, many worlds branching out at each moment you become aware of your environment and then make a choice.

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598

Gurdieff

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide.

Ken Kesey

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such love. He loved that we knew him. This is one reason people need to believe in God -- because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Beyond the visible is invisible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.

Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.

Amit Ray

I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

Sandra Cisneros

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Ken Kesey

The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn’t care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.

Jeff VanderMeer

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

C.G. Jung

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

William Faulkner

The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. The Catholic fiction writer is entirely free to observe. He feels no call to take on the duties of God or to create a new universe. He feels perfectly free to look at the one we already have and to show exactly what he sees.

Flannery O'Connor

If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and involves something akin to surrounding it with a whole system of Geiger counters, I can freeze it in such a way that it stops emitting radiation.Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.

Marcus du Sautoy

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Every new day, we must refocus, to see the beauty of the moment

Lailah Gifty Akita

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed."It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.""Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anyt

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Bohr and Heisenberg assumed that after a measurement is made by an outside observer, the wave function magically “collapses,” and the electron falls into a definitestate—that is, after looking at the tree, we see that it is truly standing. In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron. Observation is vital to existence.

Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which “collapses” the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumesa definite reality.

Open your eyes! And observe the miracles of everyday life. Absolute Amazing!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out

Benny Bellamacina

Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

Charles Eisenstein

Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life.

Matthew Donnelly

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aurelius

We are not what we do!

Ramana Pemmaraju

If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't look so far, when it is so near.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every traveler should make their own observation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The star rises from the east. Watch out!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every eye makes its own perception.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Children observe everything in nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

Victor J. Stenger

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observation is a dying art.

Stanley Kubrick

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.

Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.

To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.

Everyone’s face is odd, because we only get one.

Benny Bellamacina

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