Quotes About Observations

It is so easy for us theorists who build wonderful castles, beautiful ideas. Sometimes, it is remarkable, sometimes these beautiful ideas prove to be close to what the observations tell us. But often and also they turn out to be wrong.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

It is unfortunate that some of us worry about losing data but not our thoughts about the data. If we believed in the premises of sociology—that interaction is patterned, that people share meanings, beliefs, and behaviors—then we would trust that the patterns we missed while we were writing will still be there when we return to the field. We are more likely to forget our insights into what we observed.

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.

The thing I noticed most from challenging from country to country is not the differences but the similarities. Wrestling fans are all the same.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

The biopsychosocial assessment is based mostly on facts about the client's life and a description of the problem which the client has provided you during a series of interviews. The mental status exam is essentially your observations. It is used in different ways in different clinical settings, but those differences have more to do with the time at which one formulates one's findings than they do with content.

The basic distinctions that are so important to Nonviolent Communication: • requests and demands, • feelings and evaluations, • observations and judgments, • needs and strategies [to meet needs].

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat.

Genius makes its observations in short hand; talent writes them out at length.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

Verbal programming: What did you hear when you were young? Modeling: What did you see when you were young? Specific incidents: What did you experience when you were young?

Metaphors, like perceptions, are drawn from common experiences.