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Quotes About Observed

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
~ Amor Towles
If a man in love commits some misdeed ... he will suffer much more at being observed in it by his love than by his father.
~ Phaedrus
T]he probabilistic nature of the Schrödinger equation, which predicts only the likelihood of different experimental outcomes, leaves it offering no reason why one specific outcome is observed instead of another. In effect, it says that quantum events (the radioactive decay of an atom, say) happen for no reason.
~ Philip Ball
Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
the wealth and poverty gap observed between countries is predominately the result of differences in culture.
~ Daniel Lapin
The creature was a horrific mix of animal and machine, and seemed to realize it was being observed, seemed to know what lay inside the walls of the Glade, seemed to want to get inside and feast on human flesh.
~ James Dashner
A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.
~ Duncan Hunter
life's most important moments are often barely noticed by others, if noticed at all.
~ Richard Ford
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
~ Joseph Addison
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.
~ Peter J. Carroll
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.
~ David Hurn
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The important distinction so well understood in America, between a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government, and a law established by the government and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Over-the-counter drug abuse or addiction was a problem that I observed at Mauna Kea
~ Steven Magee
No random event has ever been empirically demonstrated. Events have been observed which have been interpreted as being based on randomness, but this is merely an inference, and rationalists can advance totally different inferences that never once refer to randomness.
~ David Sinclair
But, as Eric Hoffer once observed, aspiring leaders cannot create mass movements unless conditions are historically ripe.
~ David T. Courtwright
You know, I observed a man who masturbated until he bled. Did he want to do that?
~ David Wong
Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.
~ Jean Thompson
He quickly observed, that good sentences and excellent representations of the follies of mankind met with little regard or applause, whilst sounds, without sense, threw every body into raptures:——but 'twas the fashion of the day to be musically mad, and those who were absurd enough to prefer a rational entertainment to a flimsy opera, were poor insipid beings, without taste or enthusiasm.
~ Eliza Parsons
TRANSACTION: used here in the sense of Transactional Psychology, which holds that perception is not passive re-action but active, creative trans-action, and that the observer and the observed must be considered a synergetic whole.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Everybody saw them, and anger and revenge mounted all day long as people filed past or remained
~ Robert A. Carter
1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the experiments and (6) conclusions from the results of the experiments.
~ Robert M. Pirsig