Observer Quotes

“The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned...”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“If people in power are artfully pulling a red herring to cover up the cataclysm of their commitments, keeping people on a short leash and driving them playfully into an alley of false promises, we would do well to rely on attentive and considerate observers who send out alarm signals in time to prevent social corrosion. (" High noon. ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.”
― Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor

“If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“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 (Ways of Warriors Codes of Kings)

“The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole, and with the holy is love.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups.

By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the woman who sat and sipped and lived life. By the mark she leaves behind. Some people read tea leaves and others can tell your future through the lines on your palm. I think I’d like to read lipstick marks on coffee mugs.

To learn how to differentiate yearning from satiation. To know the curve of a deep-rooted joy or the line of bottomless grief. To be able to say, this deep blue red you chose and how firmly you planted your lips, this speaks of love on the horizon. But, darling, you must be sure to stand in your own truth. That barely-there nude that circles the entire rim? You are exploding into lightness and possibilities beyond what you currently know. The way the gloss only shows when the light hits it and the coffee has sloshed all over the saucer? people need to take the time to see you whole but my god, you’re glorious and messy and wonderful and free. The deep purple bruise almost etched in a single spot and most of the cup left unconsumed? Oh love. Let me hold the depth of your ache. It is true. He’s not coming back. I know you already know this, but do you also know this is not the end? Love. This is not the end.

I imagine that I can know entire stories by these marks on discarded mugs. Imagine that I know something intimate and true of the woman who left them. That I could take those mugs home one day and an entire novel worth of characters would pour out, just like that.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Practicing mindfulness is something like observing the Milky Way. It demands that we see our thoughts and emotions as separate from us, and yet, simultaneously apart of us. Also the brain can do some pretty weird things, some of which are embarrassing, thus the importance of being without judgement. Reserving judgement is important to the practice of mindfulness because as soon as we start condemning what our brain is doing, eww, why would I be thinking about that, I'm a loser, I'm a freak - We stop being able to observe. Staying in the observer position is essential to getting to know our brains and ourselves in a new way.”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“Sitting there, in the coffee house, I saw so many stories behind the lips of people who had left them untold.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself?
McLUHAN: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Nobody could be an observer without being involved.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“One of the benefits of being an artist is being very observant.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“By allowing myself to just be, i give myself space to purr in gratitude. I am the observer. I allow myself the time and space I need.”
― Petra Poje - Keeper of The Eye

“I have stood apart from the world for so long. That has made it hard for me to navigate being in it, but it has also made me an excellent observer.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“To see the end, go to the end; to see beyond the end, don’t go further, because beyond the end, there will remain no observer!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What a mystery a marriage was. What a strange and violent world, the world of matrimony. I was glad to be outside it. The idea of it filled me with a sort of queasy pity.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“and you observe at length
or should I say forever”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection

“As an author of quotes, I have a high consumption of notepads.”
― steven magee

“Victor Hugo was a passionate observer, partial to death scenes. He had an appetite for extinction, a man sure to be on hand at the sound of a death rattle or the passing of a funeral procession.”
― Helen Bevington, Along Came the Witch: A Journal in the 1960's

“I, who was looking on, an eager and curious spectator - I, who was watching the working of this mournful tragedy - I, who like a wicked angel laughing at the evil men committed protected by secrecy (a secret is easily kept by the rich and powerful), I am in my turn bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“We have one powerful observer's lens that allows us to see all possible perspectives of ourselves simultaneously, and losing just one perspective means we may lose everything. An integrative way of existing is much better than walking around as broken parts of oneself in this reality. The task is to discover all possible perspectives, achieve integrity among them, and recognize when someone is trying to break it. Continuous well-being is achieved only through continuous integration.”
― Elena Y. Goldberg

“THE TRUTH IS GUIDE FOR OBSERVERS AND LISTENERS”
― DIPTI DHAKUL

“The observer determines the outcome. The observer is a participant in the experiment.”
― Jordon Avery

“And time isn't constant. At least our human perception of time. Einstein theorized that the faster we move, the slower we perceive time to move. The clocks will still tick away at the same rate regardless - but it's all about the perception of the observer.

I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Only the observe knows what he sees.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“TIPS TO BECOME A GREAT OBSERVER:
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1). Watch the sunrise and sundown at least a week and make a note what you truly noticed.
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2). Feel the daylight and dark night at least a week and notice how you are truly feeling.
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3). Walk around the nearest market at least a month and notice whatever you are hearing.
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4). Use google search and watch YouTube videos of your interest and keep moving.
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5). Join social media twitter and Facebook and keep observing the people you are meeting.
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6). Listen online radio a random song at lest 2 hours at night and keep capturing the lyrics.
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7). And the main meditate, think, imagine at night while sleeping and keep going.
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8). Many Congratulations you are on your way to become a great observer.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“It is said in some of the science literature on cosmological quantum entanglement (which is fancy terminology for biology) that an observation or a measurement is the result of an observer interacting with a system that it is observing while becoming physically entangled with it. In other words. It's all about companionship really. Self-companionship to be more precise. It's simply not good for one to be alone.”
― Wald Wassermann

“Being observant is a must-have skill to master.”
― Robin S. Baker

“A group of investments isn’t something people can touch or examine in the physical world. Instead, the statement is the lens that investors use to view and understand their finances. It is what’s inserted between the observer and the observed, which, it’s important to note, is not created by the investor.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS