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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it”
Buddha
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
Will Rogers
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work”
“How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.”
Otto Frank
“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
Virginia Woolf
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
Henry Ford
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
“You can see a lot just by observing”
Yogi Berra