Observer Quotes

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

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

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.

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

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

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

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

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

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

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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