German leftists have still not understood the degree to which Russian President Vladimir Putting has drifted to the right domestically. Now, insightful observers are saying that Putin is trying to create something like a reactionary Internationale. The turn toward homophobia and to clerics is completely ignored by leftists in Germany. Their sympathy for Putin comes largely from their antipathy for America. And this anti-Americanism is what binds them with the far-right.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.
Painters. . . are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.
The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting our personal feelings about the things that we see. Or to put it crudely, how are you going to be a storyteller if you have no story to tell? Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; they are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.
My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.
In the absence of observers, our universe is dead
I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.
By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.