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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

Remember this—the journey is part of the dream.  Whatever it is you're chasing, so long as you are actively moving in the right direction, the dream is coming true. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #goals #perserverance #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Leo wondered what unknown sin they must have committed in some previous life to deserve this. The answer came the same way their feet later shocked to life in the warming hut after being so numb for hours- you think you'll never feel your toes again, and then all of a sudden life, damaged, stiffened, clammy, but life, dog-eat-dog life! We have not done a single thing to deserve this. ↗

— Peter Orner

#perserverance #questioning #love

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Cleary

#knowledge #observer #conformity

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

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#conclude #democracy #feelings #forced #idealistic

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

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. ↗

— David Dinkins

#administration #am #certain #contemporary #differently

I like to think of myself as an observer. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#like #myself #observer #think

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

— Billy West

#kind #like #observation #observer #power