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Letter "O" » observation
«The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
employee, explanation, observation, preparation, showing, skills, steps, supervision, The Five
«There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquiring, collects, combination, combines, experimentation, observation, principal, reflection, verified, verifies, verifying
«Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.»
Author: George Gurdjieff
| Keywords:
awakening, awakenings, Awakening The, begins, brings, certain, changes, inner, instrument, necessity, notices, observation, observing, processes, realization, realizations, The Awakening
«There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Art,
Language
| Keywords:
acquire, brief, For some, in brief, observation, plain, plain language, record
«Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| About:
Genius,
Nature,
Solitude
| Keywords:
combined, diligent, exact, experiments, geniuses, observation, These Three
«Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
holy, Holy Trinity, observation, science, trinity
«People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument»
«There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
An electric, electric, Electric fence, fence, fenced in, fence in, fencing, few, kinds, learns, observation, on the fence, pee, peed, peeing, reading, rest, themselves, three
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
applies, artisan, artisans, detected, detecting, detects, observation, rule of law, The Rules, The Rule of Law, The Works
«Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
false witness, forbid, Interesting Times, interests, murder, observation, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, Precepts, reflection, require, steal, witness
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