There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.