“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is the theory that decides what can be observed”
Albert Einstein
“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
Yogi Berra
“To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us”
Charles Caleb Colton
“From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”
Isaac Asimov
“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”
William S. Burroughs
“The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.”
A. R. Orage