Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Gao Xingjian
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MARY E. PEARSON I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
CHARLES DARWIN You can see a lot just by observing
YOGI BERRA Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Observing is the basis of wisdom.
ERALDO BANOVAC We are observing the whale sharks.
GOVERNOR MIGUEL DOMINGUEZ It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing.
ERIC WEINER Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that...
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ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.
NITYANANDA DAS Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.
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TOBA BETA Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA You can learn so much just by observing.
JESSICA WILLIAMS Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.
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AMIT RAY Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.
IKA NATASSA This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to obser...
FRANZ KAFKA Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
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MARA WANG I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
ELIF SAFAK We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others; while we act as evils.
M.F. MOONZAJER The market is responding to certain policy measures and we are observing it.
RAKESH MOHAN Everything I do I see someone do... Not hating...Just observing.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
DENNIS PRAGER Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake. Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.
TOBA BETA Sometimes when a person does things to deliberately hurt you,
All you need to do is shift atlea...
NOMTHANDAZO TSEMBENI We've been observing gorillas for 10 years here, and we have two cases of them using detached object...
THOMAS BREUER Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.
Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of w...
TOBA BETA Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by liv...
ERALDO BANOVAC Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.
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JOHN HURT It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
MASON COOLEY Nothing inspires me more profoundly than observing the journey of another human soul
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GAO XINGJIAN Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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GAO XINGJIAN Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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GAO XINGJIAN A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
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DESI ARNAZ The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
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WAKE UP! MESSAGE The disaster that we are observing lays bare the tremendous class stratification of our society,
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RON YODA The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxicall...
VACLAV HAVEL The power to know a person with suspect character is by observing how frequently he changes his word...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things alway...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN The power to know an ovulating lady is by observing how suddenly gay she has become.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.
STEVEN WRIGHT Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction...
THICH NHAT HANH Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that th...
WILLIAM KAMKWAMBA It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another p...
RICHARD JEFFERIES The support staff is observing him in the nets. He will be observed tomorrow again and a decision wi...
G.S. WALIA I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composin...
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MARIAN SELDES I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomen...
PIETER ZEEMAN You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the
means he uses to frighten you.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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