Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.
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Jonathan Price
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.
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Franz Kafka
Observing is the basis of wisdom.
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Eraldo Banovac
It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
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William Faulkner
The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn’t care what it was so long as...
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Jeff VanderMeer
More Quotes By Studs Terkel
How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They's no war in the worth that's worth fightin' for. I don't care where it is. They can't tell me any different. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Money, money is the thing that causes it all. I wouldn't be a bit...
I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have something to work with. If you don't have a job, where do you go from there? You hear people say Pull yourself up by your...
Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
