Top 535 Observing Quotes & Sayings

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

You can see a lot just by observing.

I’m a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.

The very act of observing disturbs the system.

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing.

I do think observing is important in learning.

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

I love observing people.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.

I believe in observing and absorbing life.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and fussing and scheming. When his interest is diverted inwards he naturally relaxes his hold - his stranglehold - on the outer world. Having withdrawn his capital and paid it into his own Central Bank (where it appreciates to infinity), he has nothing to lose out there and no reason for interfering. He knows how to let things be and work out in their own time. He's in no hurry. Knowing the Self, he can hardly fail to trust its products.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

You can learn so much just by observing.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

A lot of being a comedian is about observing people.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body.

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

Cats do this thing with their faces where they're so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they're observing.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.