Quotes about Watching

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

Accept - Animals - Death - Integrity - Meaning - Problem - Real - Teaching - Watching

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

Observation - People - Sometimes - Wants - Watching

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

Accident - Choice - End - Journey - Probability - Watching

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Maria Montessori

Educator, Physician

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

Movement - Show - Wants - Watching

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

Growing - Man - Watching

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Adam Smith

Author, Economist, Philosopher

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

Belief - Challenge - President - State - Unions - Watching

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Rajneesh

Guru

Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing has to be done, one more step: now watch the watcher... Nothing else is left, only you are. By watching the mind, the mind disappears. By watching the witness, the witness expands and becomes universal.

Ecstasy - Mindset - Universal - Universe - Watching - Witness

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William Wordsworth

Poet

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

Anger - Attraction - Buddhism - Care - Character - Habit - Inspiration - Love - Manifestation - Watching

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Inspiration - Life - Love - Meaning - Resistance - Romance - Suppression - Truth - Watching

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Laozi

Philosopher

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Actions - Becoming - Character - Destiny - Enlightenment - Habit - Motivation - Philosophy - Smart - Taoism - Watching - Wisdom

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Day - Mastering - Repairing - Tasks - Watching

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

Economy - Liberalism - Man - Politics - Property - Slavery - Views - Watching - Wellness

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Galileo Galilei

Astronomer, Physicist, Engineer

If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

Earth - Growing - Production - Watching

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

Actions - Communicate - Creativity - Familiarity - Man - Mindset - Watching

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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

Economy - People - War - Watching - Wellness - World

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Harper Lee

Novelist

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Watching

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Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual leader

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

Meditation - Mindset - Watching

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