Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Barry Goldwater

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Claude Bernard

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Bob Walsh

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

Brian Posehn

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Phil Jackson

We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

Sean Darks

It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever. It's the same thing as a keycard.

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

Mike Marchand

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Brad Adgate

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

Frank Sipkovsky

We want to take a break. I just want to take a vacation. Maybe it's time for new and fresh ideas. We'll remain active with the society, but we want to have less responsibility in the operations.

Angi Brunney

We want to see our Dublin students become entrepreneurs, to be the creators and innovators we know they can be. Giving them this active experience will hopefully encourage them to keep dreaming and remembering that they can take any idea, build on it, and make it work.

Robert Hite

We knew they were capable of shooting, it was just a matter of us getting out and contesting shots. They made shots we just didn't get out. Our defensive intensity wasn't the same as it was in the first half. We were very active in the first half, getting our hands on balls. We didn't do that in the second half.

Peter Schultz

We know we're looking at a geologically active body whose surface is changing over time. Now we can begin to understand how and why these jets erupt.

Sean Whitcomb

We know exactly who he is and where he lives and we are actively investigating and looking for him.

Emyr Parry

very actively on the management dossier and putting forward proposals and driving it.

J. Taylor

VC firms have historically done much better than the public market. It's the nature of high-growth capital. The participation is active and the business plans are reviewed more carefully.

Brian Kennedy

Ultimately it's not serious in any way as proposed legislation, but it's very serious with regard to what the committee's real alternatives are, ... The chairman is actively working to make sure that it's ANWR -- and (the Arctic refuge) alone.

Gary Caille

The performance features are standard stability control and anti-lock brakes. And because the vehicle is based on a commercially available model, other features like active cruise control can easily be added.