#observer

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits? ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#fair #observer #only #profits #violence

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#actually #i #job #life #looking

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

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#i #liked #listen #myself #observer

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#capacity #derive #desire #feel #her

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#been #bring #changes #character #characteristics

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. ↗

— George Savile

#faults #husband #observer #without

observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. ↗

— Chris Geiger

#observation #observed #observer #people #quote

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Cleary

#knowledge #observer #conformity