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I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital. Gerhard Richter

Painting Think Worse Worst Worst Thing Hospital Observation Than Being Thing

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone has the same aptitude and appetite for forming habits, but from my observation, that's not true. Gretchen Rubin

Work People Will Assume Approach Everyone Aptitude Habits Observation True Same Often Forming Appetite

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau

Creative Virtue Correction Laws Observation Perpetually Encourage May Vice Cannot Process Customs Should Help Therefore Originate Preserve

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. Hayden Christensen

A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study. Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Will Differences Field Too Way Significant Area Fact Observation Study Between Real Exist Review Curious Authorities Same Committees Often Impulse Curriculum In Fact Fields Declare Uniform Each

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. Hideki Tojo

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated. Isaac Newton

Matter Our Minds Distinguish Able Remain Divided Observation Particles Another Parts Mathematically May Bodies Separated Lesser

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. J. D. Hayworth

Time Great Me History Speak Great American Mark Mark Twain Those Cite Observation Know Does Said Repeat Heard Itself Author American From Time To Time Quite Often Rhymes Twain Who

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. James Dobson

Leadership Waiting Women Assume Husbands Observation Merely Women Are

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers. Joachim Frank

Writers Observation Very Often Subtleties Meaning Really Many Expressed

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. John Burroughs

Made Born Only Poets Observation Like Years Then Painstaking

Learning about and from your customers isn't always easy and requires a commitment to continual observation. John Rampton

Learning Commitment Easy About Observation Always Customers Requires Your

Observation is an old man's memory. Jonathan Swift

Man Memory Old Observation

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. Joseph Addison

Communicate World Worth Ought Critic Rather Imperfections Writer Observation Beauties True Concealed Discover Than Dwell Such Things Things

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long. Julian Baggini

Science Culture Physics Long Changed Way Range Possibilities Staying Habit Remain Never Observation Because Within Quantum Limited Quantum Physics Nasty However Falls Very Same Human Being Where Which Regular Interferes Works Even Phenomena Phenomenon

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. Kenzaburo Oe

Country Hundred Split Observation Between Since Opening Poles Opposite Years Ambiguity After Japan Twenty Present-Day Two

Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time. Lawrence Osborne

Beautiful Time You Suffering World Sometimes First Publish Lyrical Kind About More Observation Takes Question Cumulative Won Than Truths Form Really Should Hard Novel Novels Lived Flourish

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation. Marianne Elliott

Learning Other Directors Observation Methods Lot Done Really Fascinated

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. Mark Strong

Time Myself Good Family Me Mother Behavior Thought Baby Bad Bad Behavior Abroad Observation Like Liked Around Accordingly Moved Product Good Behavior Who Dad Watching

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate. Martin Chalfie

Starts Inquiry See More Investigate Observation Scientific

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. Martin Parr

Father Down Observation Genes Obsessive Passed

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