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«Like an immense flock of chattering birds observing precise migratory habits, every Wednesday, just a few minutes before noon, they swoop down upon the midtown area.»
«Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!»
«For us who are observers of ourselves there can never be a hidden desire or hidden motivation. If we are always observing ourselves nothing hidden can come in without being spotted, and nothing hidden can get done, because we (the master) are always there. »
«I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.»
«Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
observation, observed, observing, viewing
«Amusement to an observing mind is study.»
«A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
bees, crowd, curious, observer, observing, stung, The Business, The Crowd, The Observer
«Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
observing, oysters, Thick and Thin, thinnest, thin air
«Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the US to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutra»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
cultivate, entitle, fulfilling, indulging, observing, repose, The True Glory, the US, trespass, trespassing, True Glory
«I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.»
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