L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation"
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Observation
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all."
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method."
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"Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations."
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"The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster."
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"It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody."
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"Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise."
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"If a writer stops observing, he is finished."
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"They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses."
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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."
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"She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations."
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"I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men."
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"Observation - activity of both eyes and ears."
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"You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer."
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"Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation."
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"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."
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"Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen."
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"Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others."
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"We learn by observation, imitation and repetition."
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"Art demands constant observation."
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"A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole."
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"I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left."
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"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."
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