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Quotes About Observation

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
~ Anton Chekhov
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
~ Immanuel Kant
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
~ James A. Baldwin
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.
~ Hannah Hoch
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
~ Max Lucado
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
~ Anthony Doerr
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~ Charles Lamb
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
~ William Hazlitt
It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
~ Eric Lau
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
~ Alexandra David-Neel
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself.
~ Usher
Those who do not weep, do not see.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?
~ Peter Thomas
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
~ Charles Peguy
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
~ Jane Austen
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
~ Anton Chekhov
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
~ D.H. Lawrence
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
~ Orison Swett Marden
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
~ Lord Buckley