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


Gao Xingjian

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Observing and understanding are two different things.
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
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You can see a lot just by observing
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Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating.
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Observing is the basis of wisdom.
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We are observing the whale sharks.
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It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing.
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Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.
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Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.
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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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Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.
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I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
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We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others; while we act as evils.
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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.
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Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
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Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake. Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.
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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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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lif...
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass ...
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always...
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one l...
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can ...
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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In the grand tradition, both Chinese and Western painting have a close link with literature,
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For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosph...
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A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
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The disaster that we are observing lays bare the tremendous class stratification of our society,
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Just observing the levels of foot traffic, it's been substantially more than we normally see.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxicall...
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The power to know a person with suspect character is by observing how frequently he changes his word...
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I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things alway...
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The power to know an ovulating lady is by observing how suddenly gay she has become.
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To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.
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Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that th...
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The support staff is observing him in the nets. He will be observed tomorrow again and a decision wi...
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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