#observe

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#been #changes #expect #fellow #full

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#fascinating #interesting #man #me #most

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ↗

— Antisthenes

#find #first #observe #out #your

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#compel #conduct #even #greater #grid

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #became #because #been #breakdown

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#conclude #democracy #feelings #forced #idealistic

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#phenomenon #real #until

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#been #before #circumstances #dull #fabulous

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned... ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#observer #poor #intelligence