#observe

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame (that is: morally) at your past, which naturally has a share in everything that now meets you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#let-it-be #observe #past #nature

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease. ↗

— Robert Barany

#brain #caused #could #disease #kind

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

— Peter Bichsel

#observer #secondary #teacher #writer

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. ↗

— Xun Zi

#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided

Hatred observes with more care than love does. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#does #hatred #love #more #observes

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. ↗

— Eric Church

#around #come #ideas #just #key

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. ↗

— John Tillotson

#highest #least #liberty #most #observed

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures. ↗

— George Crumb

#countries #cultures #ever #i #increasing

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#gentleman #hold #i #observes #whose

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#believe #determination #how #i #make