You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989.
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak to general cultural statements.
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.
One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.
All the Bollywood choreographers are so talented and inspiring. I am learning a lot just by observing their work.
I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
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.
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.
I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.
I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.
It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.
Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.
On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
I've always felt that Balanchine is my ultimate teacher. I learn the most from observing his work and also dancing in it.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
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.
I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.
I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.
With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.
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
Ramadan is an important part of Islam, and when you are observing it, God is happy with you and you have to have a big celebration.
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.
One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
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