Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.
CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.
As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." [ (1865)]
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.
We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.
It is by observation that in the future they will not remember what you said, they will not remember what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel.
I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.
As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
