Observers Quotations

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

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

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

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

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Who will observe the observers?

We regret that the government turned a deaf ear to the many calls for the release of this respected journalist. At least, after 15 months of detention, Zhao is going to be able to defend himself in court against the baseless charges brought against him by the Chinese authorities. We hope, at the very least, that the trial will be fair and that foreign observers and the press will be able to attend.

We won't have enough observers for all the boats to fish at the same time.

By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.

The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.

Many market observers are coming out with the belief that the market will break upward after the election. Such strong consensus views often don't turn out to be a reality.

So many seats in California are safe, and that's true nationally, too. So the opportunities for the out-of-power party to gain (seats in Congress) is really not that great. Most observers would say that only a few seats could change hands.

Some observers have said they found irregularities on election day -- like the electoral centers being based in people's homes, in chiefs' homes rather than in neutral places like schools or fields,

Obesity is a national problem, and poor diet and insufficient exercise are recognized as the primary causes. But observers increasingly have pointed to our culture and our built environment as possible contributing factors -- specifically, the relationship of residential setting and urban sprawl to obesity.

I - and I think many other observers - thought Ichiro would be the one to say no and Hideki would say yes. I think he's grateful to (George) Steinbrenner for the new contract and the confidence in him. He feels more of an obligation to Steinbrenner than he does to Japan. It's not about the money, it's about the vote of confidence. I think he thought it would be rude to leave the team in spring training. If he hadn't just signed the contract, maybe he would have gone.

What you had was a lot of young volunteers who, frankly, objected to this election being decided behind closed doors, without the media having a full view and without our observers having a full view. We executed our First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, with full decorum.

I also think it's not just good for the American people to have independent observers along, I think it's also good for the military.

Our observers will be the eyes for the National Weather Service. They'll use the information to decide if they need to put a warning out for the county.

Like Rasputin, who refused to die even after he was poisoned, shot three times and beaten with a 2-pound dumbbell, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R) is proving to be more resilient than many political observers once assumed.

I think most observers knew this was going to be a bad quarter, but this is very, very bad. It just shows that while most people knew that the (meat) business was very, very difficult right now, the business is worsening.

That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects not any sort of artifact and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto.

With the growing season coming to an end, most observers believe that the South American crop will be record large, with more uncertainty about the Argentine crop than the Brazilian crop. U.S. soybean oil stocks at the end of the most recent reporting month--January 2006--were estimated at 2.477 billion pounds, nearly 60 percent larger than stocks of a year ago. Stocks were at the highest level since August 2002.

We have had discussions with the observers, and the procedures have been outlined to them. The observers naturally wish to consult their capitals, and they have asked us to await the reply from the capitals.

We could expect up to 500 participants and observers at the VFW during weigh-in.

We were able to make an assessment that we did not have to make any changes and our observers stayed.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Whenever a president is in trouble, as this one is, the pundits and observers in Washington say, 'Don't just stand there, do something.' So they give a speech -- he's done that. They appoint a blue-ribbon commission -- he's done that. They change personnel -- they are doing that. The point is, that is not what really ails this administration. They've got a policy problem, and either they can change the policy or they have to hope the policy starts working better for them.

There is no requirement that international observers must ensure anything of this sort. It's the voters that decide.

The participation of many observers allows a more objective evaluation of the elections, from various points of view.

The government waited until the elections were over and most of the foreign press and observers had gone to kick out one of the few resident foreign journalists.

We're thrilled to get some recognition. Last year, my first year here, I felt like we were observers to the Big South Conference. This year we are participants and we've got some things to build on in the future. Maybe start a little tradition here.

We almost have the wagon fixed. Our observers saw two men in camouflage walking away from the Republic of Texas property. We're right now vigorously searching for these individuals.

urge the U.S. and the Europeans to provide international observers immediately.

Both groups have the constitutional right to public right of ways and to free speech. But one group's rights cannot infringe upon one another, and that's what legal observers are there for.

And what's different? We'll have some diplomatic observers with us to make sure that both sides -- not just UNSCOM, but Iraq, too -- behave in an appropriate manner in these special sites,

Another issue likely to resurface is the matter of 'a more competitive exchange rate', deciphered as code for the rand to weaken. Moral suasion such as this may be good for export-biased manufacturers, but will hardly be considered good for observers of inflation, or long-term interest rate markets.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

and that's why we are together exerting pressure so that Saddam Hussein lets international observers into the country.

Anything higher would be quite a stretch in my mind. Essex has a fantastic track record, and most observers view them as a great management team, value-added group.

As far as international observers are concerned, unfortunately the security situation has acted as a deterrent.

They used huge numbers of armed thugs who attacked the election observers and the voters, and the security did nothing to stop them.

They say they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein. They don't say that they want to apply pressure for the foreign observers to enter the country again, and that is the policy of which I said that it is wrong at this moment,

They are astute observers of the executive branch ... and they know that the president is weakened.

It's almost a boilerplate meeting. At the last meeting there was widespread expectation that they would remove their pledge to maintain accommodative policy for 'a considerable period.' But the December employment figures made it very apparent that the job market continues to lag, and most observers have come to the conclusion that the Fed really does need to stay accommodative.

Domestic and international observers have reported serious irregularities in the Ugandan election.

It was a grim briefing. U.S. diplomatic observers are doing a terrific job bringing us information, and the information is not good.

Not unexpectedly, pre-trial rhetoric has amounted to bullying and posturing in the media's eye, ... prominent reputation includes no apparent lack of shyness as far as communicating with the media and outside observers is concerned.

Inflation was probably a little bit stronger than expected, so against that backdrop we don't expect a substantial Treasury market rally. We may get some short-covering, but many observers will sense that this is a soft patch.

In essence these are multi-party elections in a one-party state. We urge all the election observers to take that into account and to address allegations of abuse.

If the Palestinians claim that observers are a need, let them negotiate with the Israelis

In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

Canada should be ashamed. Our team is there as peaceful observers and they should not have to fear for their safety.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

The March reading suggests that the pace of economic growth in the state has slowed, but the result is still strongly positive. This is consistent with forecasts by most observers of the national economy, who expect the economy to continue to expand, albeit at a somewhat slower rate.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

All the threats and kidnappings have been of a political nature. It appears that they are saying that international elections observers are not wanted here. But we want to understand beyond that.

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.

Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Which came first — the observer or the particle?

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.