#observed

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. ↗

— Judith Wright

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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. ↗

— Philip Levine

#attention #come #commonplace #eternity #eyes

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ↗

— Odilon Redon

#art lies #basis #felt #i #lies

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. ↗

— Robert Adams

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