All Quotes

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
‐‐ Camille Pissarro

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
‐‐ Antisthenes

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
‐‐ Gao Xingjian

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
‐‐ Eugene O'Neill

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
‐‐ Michael Caine

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
‐‐ Anne Rice

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
‐‐ Nelson Algren

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.
‐‐ Ariel Garten

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
‐‐ Jacques Lacan

Obsessions turn people off.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object.
‐‐ Kathi Appelt

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
‐‐ Og Mandino

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
‐‐ E. Joseph Cossman

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
‐‐ Henry Ford

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.
‐‐ Jefferson Davis

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.
‐‐ Rick Scott

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
‐‐ Thomas Browne

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
‐‐ E. T. Bell

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.
‐‐ Paul Simonon

Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.
‐‐ Jeffrey Toobin

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.
‐‐ Roger Stone

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.
‐‐ Yuvraj Singh

Obviously, a lot of TV shows are based on chronological episode viewing, and the stories are contingent upon watching it in order. Syndicated shows, you don't have to watch in order. You're just watching characters that don't change that much.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.
‐‐ Tony Judt

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
‐‐ Chiaki Kuriyama

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
‐‐ Anne Rice

Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
‐‐ Madhur Mittal

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.
‐‐ Tom G. Palmer

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
‐‐ Phillip Noyce

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.
‐‐ Jay Weatherill