Observe Quotes - page 2

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind. (Shunryu Suzuki)
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. View quote
Mark Kingwell
Of this voyage, I observe,' says the Admiral, 'that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination. View quote
Alex Trebek
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. View quote
Michael Connelly
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. View quote
Andrea Hirata
You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do. View quote
Renny Harlin
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source. View quote
Jean-Philippe Rameau
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. View quote
Maria Montessori
Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme"-i. e., consistent). View quote
Ayn Rand
He liked to observe emotions they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. View quote
Ayn Rand
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them. View quote
Solon
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. View quote
Margot Asquith
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it. (Simon Newcomb)
I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself. View quote
Edmund Burke
To observe attentively is to remember distinctly. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe? View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti