Observer Quotes

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

I've always been quiet, more of an observer.

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.

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.