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“No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.”

Understood Organisms Observing Colony Comprehending

“When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forward to seeing you again on the gemba.”

People Ifs Looks Helping Seeing Observing You Again

Author:Taiichi Ohno

“Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.”

Natural Principles Practice Cases Special Century Theory Philosophical Physics Phenomenon Initials Observing Implications Staggering Natural Phenomena

Author:Al Gore

“If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.”

Ifs World Want Persons Made Two Parent Raised Compromise Witness Observing Better Person Single Parent

Author:Chris Rock

“You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.”

People Character Actors Design Training Characteristics Observing

Author:Clint Eastwood

“For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.”

Lasts Observing Masochism

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created by people who aren't writers and they're second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it's not. And you are passively observing this; watching an amateur production of nothing. It's like a photo of a drawing of a hologram.”

People Ifs Thinking Real Shows Reality Actors Situation Experience Productions Drawing Behave Observing Guessing Reality Shows Second Guessing Holograms

Author:Dana Gould

“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.”

Writing Mind Hands Numbers Attention Blood Red Committed Screens Stuck Unusual Observing

Author:Srinivasa Ramanujan

“There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.”

Evil Walks Grief Arise Observing Rhinoceros

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.”

Influence Events Outcomes Quantum Observing

Author:Dean Radin

“It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.”

Reason Faults Observing

Book:Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle

Source: Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle

“In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.”

World Body Law Spirit Order Divine Materials Eternal Real Life Agents Merit Acquire Observing Material World Divine Power Eternal Happiness

Author:Allan Kardec

“The very act of observing disturbs the system.”

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Author:Werner Heisenberg

“We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.”

Walks Cities Outsiders Observing Participating

Author:Paul Auster

“I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort of thing, and a writer who has meant a great deal to me, is Henry James: there's a magical way that he has of turning the slightest gesture into a whole world of drama and feeling.”

People Thinking World Way Stills Whole Feelings Deals Masters Drama Whole World Weather Gestures Observing Shifting

Author:Garth Greenwell

“Barry Manilow was very special for me. We've had many collaborations since then and all have been equally rewarding and musical. I've learned so much from him. I like being a student around him; observing him in his environment.”

Has Beens Environment Special Students Musical I've Learned Collaboration Observing

Author:Dave Koz

“First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking about currently. And we all know that occupations, in military terms, comes down basically to policing, so you have an army basically functioning as a police force in these foreign territories as part of foreign policy. I'm not knocking that down, I'm just observing.”

Knows Firsts Past Force Term Talking Military Policy Army Police Iraq Occupation Territory Afghanistan Foreign Policy Observing Knocking Police Force

Author:Oren Moverman

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

Men Atheism Missing Roots Statistics Superstitions Observing Superstitious Irrationality

Author:Francis Bacon

“When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body.”

Mind Body Process Activity Breaths Your Body Wander Contrast Spontaneous Observing Unfolding Wandering Mind

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.”

Trying Careers Successful Down And Traits Observing Professional Career

Author:Olivia Stuck

“Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.”

Way Writing Song New York Zone Observing Writing Songs

Author:Frankie Cosmos

“I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.”

Beautiful Weather Giants Observing Something Beautiful

Author:Feist

“I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company.”

My Own Decision Company Built Brands Observing Own Business Business Decisions

Author:Ivanka Trump

“Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.”

Thinking Feels Trying Opinion Comedian Performing Observing Analyzing Outside Looking In

Author:Chris Gethard

“If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Would Be Finished Being True Reserves Observing

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.”

Consciousness Gone Infinite Observing Infinite Consciousness

Author:David Icke

“In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you start revising. And as you revise you always are making it better by being specific and by observing more closely, which actually is really the same as saying you love your characters. The close observation equals love of them.”

Littles Character Stories Bits Love You Example Little Bit Observation Satisfying Cartoon Observing Revising

Author:George Saunders

“It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.”

Looks Self Stuff Practice Honest Judgment Yoga Observing

Author:Tara Stiles

“By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.”

Behavior Observers Observing Conditioning

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.”

Self Events Eternal Silent Witness True Self Observing Unfolding

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.”

People Thinking Want Writing Two Reading Inspire Two Things Observing

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.”

Ifs Feels Mind Moments Body Fall Easy Practice Impossible Tree Crazy Circumstances Happenings Breaths Legs Your Body Burning Stability Observing Mind And Body Going Crazy

Author:Tara Stiles

“[ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up.”

World Has Beens Said Two Guy Married Distance Arguing Characteristics Observing Being Married Chuck Two Guys

Author:Chris Matthews

“There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.”

Should Important Remember Law Democracy Important Things Observing

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.”

Feelings Practice Meditation Sensations Observing

Author:Allan Lokos

“Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the hours of prayer, studying the books of law, and memorizing the Koran. Yet their women show no bashfulness before men and do not veil themselves, though they are assiduous in attending prayers. Any man who wishes to marry one of them may do so, but they do not travel with their husbands, and, even if one desired to do so, her family would not allow her to go. The women have their 'friends' and 'companions' amongst the men outside their own families.”

People Ifs Men May Book Shows Law Wish Hours Prayer Study He Man Husband Companion Veils Observing Attending Surpassing Memorizing Bashfulness

Author:Ibn Battuta

“I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This was an interesting experience, which has had some beneficial effects for me.”

Whole Hours Interesting Silence Meditation Effects Hundred Noble Retreat Observing Beneficial Meditating

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.”

World States Emotional Observing Persona Observing The World

Author:John Mulaney

“Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.”

Thinking Faces Fall Social My Own Media Pressure Narrative Spheres Life Experience Traps Dominant Observing Trans My Own Life Constantly Thinking

Author:Vivek Shraya

“I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education.”

Needs Mass Inspired Motivated Throat Educate Elites Originality Observing Parody Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.”

Ifs Looks Country Term Successful Economic Development Data Catholicism Observing Protestants Economic Development

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.”

Persons Mother Observing Good Person

Author:Cynthia Addai-Robinson

“I have making a new film called Story of Your Life, directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Which is about aliens coming to the earth and observing us and us trying to find a way to communicate with them.”

Way Trying Stories Earth Film Communicate Forests Aliens Observing Amy

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.”

Men Stills Ideas Different Enough Together Black Differences White Roles Break Ambition Prejudice Fundamentals Breaking Down Misunderstanding Observing My Ambition Warrants

Author:David Oyelowo

“Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US government first and foremost. These governments are elected by us, funded by us, acting on our behalf, sensitive to our will, and so, we are not mere bystanders observing the injustice.”

Firsts Government Acting Design Mere Injustice Sensitive Adoption Behalf Observing Compliance Bystanders

Author:Thomas Pogge

“I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.”

People Thinking Way Want I Can Sometimes Can Do Fiction Missing Behavior Documentaries Observing Unspoken

Author:Robert Greene

“You got to do well at your craft ultimately, especially if you know that people are observing you and watching you and you don't want to get out there and produce subpar work. Because that's how people look at it. They don't just look at you as an athlete, they look at it as o you're an athlete and you're a Christian, what's happening now?”

People Ifs Knows Want Wells Looks Christian Produce Happenings Athlete Crafts Observing

Author:LeCrae

“More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.”

People Ifs Way Deals Judgment Dedicated Observing

Author:Freida Pinto

“I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on the planet who have devoted their lives to preserving whatever it is they're passionate about. I want to be them. I am one of them. I just have a different outlet and final outcome as an artist than many of them would. For them, the process can just end in holding on to it, just knowing they've got it tucked away in their private collection. I value that so much, but I feel the conversation dies in a way there.”

“Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music.”

People Kind Different Kids Song Interesting Listening Musician Singing Lazy Get Away Songwriting About Yourself Observing Really Interesting

Author:Steve Gunn

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