Observing Quotes
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.
Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing.
In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.
Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.
More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.
Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what's happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.
Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.
Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
