We cannot create observers by saying 'observe ' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Science is simply common sense at its best that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

To me photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.