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Quotes About Observation

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
~ Anonymous
Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.
~ Anonymous
The ear of jealousy heareth all things.
~ Anonymous
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
~ Anonymous
When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferior grievances naturally lose their force, and are suffered to pass by without punishment or observation.
~ Anonymous
You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis.
~ Anonymous
Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"
~ Anonymous
You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.
~ Anonymous
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
~ Anonymous
Thou shalt see the mountains that thou supposest fixed, passing by like clouds.
~ Anonymous
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
~ Anonymous
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
~ Anonymous
Ex ungue leonem [From his claw one can tell a lion].
~ Anonymous: Latin
"Who saw him die?""I," said the fly,"With my little eye,I saw him die."
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop
~ Ansel Adams
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
~ Ansel Adams
A photograph is usually looked at — seldom looked into.
~ Ansel Adams
To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
~ Ansel Adams
To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
~ Ansel Adams
A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.
~ Ansel Adams
There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer
~ Ansel Adams
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
~ Ansel Adams
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
~ Ansel Adams
The good news, however, is that the self also has made reason and scientific observation possible, and reason and science, in turn, have been gradually correcting the misleading intuitions prompted by the unaided self. Overcoming
~ António R. Damásio