#observe

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#comes #emotional #had #having #impact

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ↗

— Alice Walker

#holy #making #observe #rest #sabbath

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#observed

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#go #i #java #just #microsoft

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#been #does #facts #logically #merely

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#body #climbing #directly #even #i

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#effects #himself #observer #observing #physics

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. ↗

— Richard Russo

#disingenuous #frequently #hilarious #humor #i

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#diagram #each #eight #first #having