Observation Quotes - Page 3

• La observación de los demás está teñida por nuestra incapacidad de observarnos a nosotros mismos con imparcialidad. Nunca podremos ser imparciales sobre nada hasta que no seamos imparciales sobre nuestro propio organismo.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Perspective, Inability, Organisms

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). "Ensayos y aforismos"

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• Las tartas de cartón y las flores de papel están siendo desterradas del escenario por el crecimiento de ese poder de observación precisa que comúnmente es llamado cinismo por aquellos que no lo tienen...

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Cynical, Belief

  "Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.

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• El brillo de los diamantes es vigorizado por la interposición de cuerpos más oscuros; las luces de un cuadro son creadas por las sombras; el mayor placer que la naturaleza ha concedido a la percepción sensible es el del descanso después de la fatiga.

  Samuel Johnson

  Luz, percepción, cuerpo

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). "Vida y Escritos", p.120

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• When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

  Isaac Watts

  Jewels, Certain

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• An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Nice, Eye, Attention

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1860). “The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy”

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• Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  White, Snow, World

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• I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Thinking, Want, Painting

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• No hay arte más difícil de adquirir que el arte de la observación, y para algunos hombres es igual de difícil registrar una observación en un lenguaje breve y llano.

  William Osler

  Arte, Hombres, Lenguaje llano

  William Osler (1927). "Aequanimitas", p.194, Ravenio Books

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• How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

  Franz Kafka

  Self, Literature, World

  Franz Kafka (1991). "Los cuadernos del Octavo Azul"

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• We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

  William Hazlitt

  Appreciation, Courage, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.134

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• Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Espiritual, Media, Hombres

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• Por lo que he observado de cerca a los escritores... se dividen en dos grupos: 1) los que sangran copiosa y visiblemente ante cualquier mala crítica, y 2) los que sangran copiosa y secretamente ante cualquier mala crítica.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Fall, Writing

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Gold: the final science fiction collection”, Harper Prism

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• A las observaciones que nosotros mismos hacemos, nos volvemos más parciales por el bien del observador.

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Growth, Sake

  "Epístolas a varias personas" "A Lord Cobham" (1734) l. 11

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• Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

  James A. Garfield

  Memories, Men, Old Man

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• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

  Edmund Burke

  Understanding, Planning, Plans

  Edmund Burke (1792). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London, Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.175

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• Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

  Franz Kafka

  Self, Literature, Association

  Franz Kafka (1954). "Preparativos de boda en el campo: y otros escritos póstumos en prosa. Con notas de Max Brod".

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• A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

  Winston Churchill

  Trying, Delight, Paint

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). "Churchill sobre hombres y acontecimientos: una selección de "Pensamientos y aventuras" y "Grandes contemporáneos"".

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• A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Character, Looks, Sides

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• En el espejo de tu mente aparecen y desaparecen todo tipo de imágenes. Sabiendo que son creaciones tuyas, obsérvalas ir y venir en silencio. Mantente alerta, pero no te perturbes. Esta actitud de observación silenciosa es la base del yoga. Ves la imagen, pero no eres la imagen.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Attitude, Yoga, Knowing

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• El viento de la mañana sopla siempre, el poema de la creación es ininterrumpido; pero pocos son los oídos que lo escuchan.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Blow, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

  Billy West

  Kind, Observers

  "Billy West: The Many (Cartoon) Voices In His Head". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 15, 2010.

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• Observation is an old man's memory.

  Jonathan Swift

  Memories, Men, Literature

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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• Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dust, Desert, Littles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.6

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• Todo hombre que observa atentamente y resuelve con firmeza se convierte inconscientemente en un genio.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Motivación, Hombres, Genio

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• La observación de la naturaleza forma parte de la vida de un artista, amplía su forma [y] su conocimiento, le mantiene fresco y sin trabajar sólo con fórmulas, y alimenta la inspiración.

  Henry Moore

  Life, Nature, Inspiration

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read (1944). “Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings”

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