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Quotes About Observation

We see the world through our experience.
~ John Paul Caponigro
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
~ Paul Getty
It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.
~ Karl Popper
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.
~ Paul Fussell
I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.
~ Stuart Pearson Wright
You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.
~ Alva Noe
I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.
~ Stephen Shore
I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.
~ David Icke
If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!
~ Seungsahn
The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.
~ Robert Holdstock
Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.
~ Simon Blackburn
Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.
~ Quentin S. Crisp
Judgment is forced upon us by experience
~ Samuel Johnson
Incredible experience, watching a baby birth on the internet. It's now my screensaver.
~ David Letterman
I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.
~ Serena Williams
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
~ Illeana Douglas
All experience helps when you write.
~ Jerome Lawrence
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.
~ Russell Hoban
I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.
~ Truman Capote
For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.
~ Unknown
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.
~ Lewis Thomas
I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.
~ Narendra Modi
The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
~ Henrik Ibsen