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ada07a2 It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish. compassion motivational god hope life inspirational appreciation observation journey Steve Maraboli
d92dd39 I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. mermaid observation singing T.S. Eliot
df63cc5 The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon visual observation Ken Kesey
89c6c72 In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. observation C.S. Lewis
9a8e769 Reason, Observation and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science -- have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect. nature reason inspiration science happiness hope content holy-trinity trinity observation experience supernatural Robert Green Ingersoll
d10c435 Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows seeing underdog inspirational ordinary extraordinary observation buffy-the-vampire-slayer power Joss Whedon
858a68d What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. reality truth observation Michael Connelly
30794bb Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice. optimism happiness inspirational umbrellas observation Julie Andrews Edwards
8aced01 I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. science observation evidence Isaac Asimov
6b4c3e6 The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon. stars life moon heavens horizon mist setting observation sunset place dusk sea night sunrise H. Rider Haggard
f801002 However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? personality passion emotion people ugliness observation description sincerity psychology Honoré de Balzac
e0ea9ab It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. observation Agatha Christie
3a22dd1 (An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours. unhappiness writing observation writers Rudyard Kipling
c0087d6 We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. observation royalty Robin McKinley
35c9523 Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified. observation satire Evelyn Waugh
6b0220a You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice on the wall saying it was forbidden to take photographs of the courtyard without the man's permission. [..] They want to own the light! observation science-fiction human-nature Iain M. Banks
5468380 Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world. observation Nancy Farmer
074bed7 ...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide. observation Ken Kesey
83f687b I always notice flowers. noticing observation Andy Warhol
88f9d5d "Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing. "What colour's a blackbird?" she said. "Black" "Typical!" nature noticing drawing colour observation David Almond
5bada04 The world was beautiful when looked at in this way--without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. world observation simplicity children Hermann Hesse
18ea334 "WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, observation weather Thomas Hardy
3f231b6 A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation travel observation journey Tahir Shah
30ae49d The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery. humour observation society Chuck Palahniuk
ff1d7ca Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. nature noticed observation fantastic nature-s-beauty G.K. Chesterton
4d03ab2 The constant vigilance and my heightened anxiety that I'd screw it up anyway exhausted me, but I persevered. perseverance relationships social-anxiety observation communication Tracey Garvis Graves
c8d4222 Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation. humor observation C.J. Cherryh
19c697b A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could pick out brightly stained structural details of celestial organisms, or glowing slits in dark banks, or flat, ethereal beaches that looked like mirages of desert islands. I did not know then (as I know perfectly well now) what to do with such things--how to get rid of them, how to transform them into something that can be turned over to the reader in printed characters to have him cope with the blessed shiver--and this inability enhanced my oppression. writing observation Vladimir Nabokov
fc0e46d I don't know which is worse--to have a bad teacher or no teacher at all. In any case, I believe the teacher's work should be largely negative. He can't put the gift into you, but if he finds it there, he can try to keep it from going in an obviously wrong direction. We can learn how not to write, but this is a discipline that does not simply concern writing itself but concerns the whole intellectual life. A mind cleared of false emotion and false sentiment and egocentricity is going to have at least those roadblocks removed from its path. If you don't think cheaply, then there at least won't be the quality of cheapness in your writing, even though you may not be able to write well. The teacher can try to weed out what is positively bad, and this should be the aim of the whole college. Any discipline can help your writing: logic, mathematics, theology, and of course and particularly drawing. Anything that helps you to see, anything that makes you look. The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that doesn't require his attention. education teaching-writing writing-class guidance observation writing-process perception Flannery O'Connor
1865635 The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. The Catholic fiction writer is entirely free to observe. He feels no call to take on the duties of God or to create a new universe. He feels perfectly free to look at the one we already have and to show exactly what he sees. how-to-write writing-fiction observation fiction-writing novel-writing perception world-view Flannery O'Connor
0d8853b Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dulness. Because a bluebottle bangs irrationally against a window-pane, the drawing-room naturalist may forget that under less artificial conditions it is capable of measuring distances and drawing conclusions with all the accuracy needful to its welfare... social-skills context observation Edith Wharton
65b0769 "Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed. "It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over." "Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anything." "Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were bothered? About something important, about something real?" time world books reality work life bother kerosene lifetime reality-check observation real important create ignorance destruction thought creativity creation Ray Bradbury
d399514 "Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which "collapses" the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumes a definite reality." reality observation Michio Kaku
4411021 [D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [...] that everyone did it. whining observation Vladimir Nabokov
3d61410 "To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Bohr and Heisenberg assumed that after a measurement is made by an outside observer, the wave function magically "collapses," and the electron falls into a definite state--that is, after looking at the tree, we see that it is truly standing. In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron. Observation is vital to existence." reality observation Michio Kaku
8a13d5b Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet. They see and they hear. Like ancient monks, you know, who recorded knowledge, wrote it painstakingly down. These systems collect and process. All the secret knowledge of the world. intelligence reconnaissance police-state observation surveillance technology Don DeLillo
8ccb595 We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast. objectivity objects subjectivity motion speed observation relativity perception Rachel Kushner
cecb080 Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see. seeing writing observation knowledge Sigrid Nunez
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