#observation

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

#control #different #experience #hip-hop #how

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. ↗

— Mos Def

#experience #life #make #observations #questions

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#essence #indispensable #luminous #me #nature

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. ↗

— Natalie Lloyd

#eiffel-tower #lace #observation #paris #steel

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. ↗

— Henry Ford

#been #during #get #most #observation

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#fact #first #i #my own #observation

Observation is an old man's memory. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#memory #observation #old

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

#how #inner #inner world #knowledge #my self

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#detailed #discoveries #fossil #four #had