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  • I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

  • So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

    Jealous   Long   Unions  
    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.216
  • Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

    Office   Waiting   Lord  
    'Hymns' (1755) 'The active Christian'
  • To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

    Mind   Saws   Would Be  
    Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press
  • In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can take these issues of family law to an orthodox Court and have that judge, judge for them. As long as the courts don't violate the laws of the land and as long as there's a room for appeal should one or two parties disagree with the verdict, I don't see how this would have anything to do with being incompatible with what we refer to as Western ideas of democracy.

    Country   Party   Law  
    Source: www.sbs.com.au
  • Whether youre trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, Ive always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether its as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.

    Hockey   Player   Years  
  • I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

    Roles   Fiction   States  
    Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.

  • I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

    "Artist to Know: Ellie Goulding". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2011.
  • I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.

    Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.
  • Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese desert as fellow passengers cheer. Yes, there's light at the heart of this book; but darkness too, as the world and the traveler unravel and re-ravel, fall together, come apart. Shepard proves the best sort of traveling companion -- lively, observant, incisive, eloquent, charmed by the strange and familiar, the old and new. Climb aboard these poems. Enjoy the ride.

    Cheer   Spring   Fall  
  • Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.

    Love   Life   Truth  
  • Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

    Travel   Views   Peru  
  • Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

    Real   Men   Thinking  
  • There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

    Film   Made   Audience  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • [On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.

    Spiritual   Art   Spring  
  • So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

    Death   Numbers   Widows  
  • When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen.

  • Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

    The Gods
  • I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.

    Real   Drama   Writing  
    Source: collider.com
  • It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

    Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria
  • Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

    Memories   Writing   Long  
  • I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it.

    "Naomi Campbell: 'Everyone has a temper'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2013.
  • The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.

    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

    Andreas Feininger (1974). “The Perfect Photograph”
  • The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.

    Real   Struggle   Men  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “The First and Last Freedom”, p.24, Harper Collins
  • My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

    Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.68, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

    Children   Way   Should  
    Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.62, Simon and Schuster
  • I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

    Children   Book   Reading  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

    Law   People   Justice  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 413-15, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris, CCXCVII, 1922.
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