#observer

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation

Smartass Disciple: If you are really a master, then make me see miracles! Master of Stupidity: Go to sleep and dream, then wake up thirty years later! ↗

— Toba Beta

#logic-of-the-observer #mindset #miracle #relativity #truth

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself

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

— Billy West

#kind #like #observation #observer #power

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ↗

— James Humes

#even #leader #leaders #leadership #mind

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

— Rick Wakeman

#around #i #life #music #my life

I've always been quiet, more of an observer. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#been #i #more #observer #quiet

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

— Eric Bana

#guess #i #imagination #keen #like

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#close #custer #general #observer #personal

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone