Observation Quotes - page 5

Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world. (Walt Disney)
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. View quote
Henry Ford
Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must understand Nature before we can adapt its way of working to our needs. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions. View quote
Isaac Newton
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist” cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.) View quote
Randall Jarrell
Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation. View quote
Markus Zusak
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation. View quote
Eugen Herrigel
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us. View quote
Rick Riordan
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. View quote
Charles Cooley
But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness. (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. View quote
David Dinkins
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. View quote
Solomon Northup
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. View quote
Graham Chapman
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. View quote
Asa Gray
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. View quote
Billy West
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. View quote
Goldwin Smith
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere. (Jeff Ross)
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. View quote
John Lasseter
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way. View quote
Len Goodman
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. View quote
Mark Strong