It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
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.
If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.
I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
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.
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority.
Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.'
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.
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.
Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.
I am travelling to different places and talking to people about travelling litter-free, observing the wildlife, and respecting the host.
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades.
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
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.
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
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.
The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.
To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.
I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.
I think the best time to learn things is when you're hurt. Just sitting back and observing to see how you can be effective in certain parts of the games is important.
I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.
In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.
A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.
A lot of human learning comes from unsupervised learning where you're just sort of observing the world around you and understanding how things behave.
I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.
I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.
When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.
I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.
I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.
If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
When you cover someone day in and day out, you start observing their habits or how and when they respond well.
Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?
'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.
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.
Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.
I learned a lot from observing Wayne at the Rogers Cup. He was offered a cart across the grounds, but he wouldn't take it; he walked and stopped and signed autographs for people, and I thought that was amazing.
I've always found that I personally love to observe things, and I'm good at observing things.
Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.
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