#observe

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#advice #chance #count #down #ever

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things. ↗

— Aries Spears

#comedian #could #everyday #everyone #exaggeration

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#aretha franklin #around #being #flack #franklin

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. ↗

— Ian Hunter

#i think #instead #more #nature #observers

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#know #observed #observer #product #universe

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#knowledge #must #observe #study #wisdom

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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