110 Observation Quotes for You to Enjoy

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw

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Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome. Monte Irvin

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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt

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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford

Time People Others Has-Been Observation Most Been Get Waste

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. Walter Scott

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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. George Washington

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Wise People Men Way See Something Both Observation Wise Men Beyond Non-Existence Existence Middle Transcends Either Them Ignorant Ignorant People

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. Maria Montessori

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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. Max Euwe

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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out. Vernon Howard

Life Man People Will Stage Out Tell Horror Through Observation He Putting Performance Most Because Permanent Go Cunning Get Getting Order Wants Your Found Actor Why Reject

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. Walter Winchell

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People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. John Lasseter

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. Anne Sullivan

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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. J. Paul Getty

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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. John Searle

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Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit. Rudolf Steiner

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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. Sarah Palin

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It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. Spike Lee

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