The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.
I have learned that many of us simply “See”, .........we hardly “Observe
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
