Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
ObservationCritical ThinkingVerificationEmpiricism Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
DocumentationRecord-KeepingObservationDiligence For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
PhysicsObservationUnderstandingDiscovery We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.
ParticipationObservationActionInactionEngagement We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
ObservationBiasPerspectiveSelf-Perception To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
ObjectivityObservationResultExperimentation It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
CreativityObservationGeniusArtistryRules The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
ComedyEnvironmentObservationProgression Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
