Definition of Observing

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Definition of Observing
	Observing of Observe Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; as, an observing person; an observing mind. Related Definitions: An, As, Attention, Attentive, Giving, Mind, Observe, Observing, Of, Particular, Person, To, What

Observing Quotations

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Charles Darwin

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
Mary Oliver

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
Ivan Pavlov

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Mason Cooley

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.
David Cronenberg

Observing Translations

observing in French is observateur, observant
observing in German is beobachtend, beobachtend, aufmerksam
observing in Italian is attento
observing in Spanish is alercta

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