The sculptures were not an expression of the observed landscape but of the act of observing it.
Observing Kennedy at close quarters did not help to solve the mystery.
She says it is possible to detect poor leadership simply by observing your organisation's environment: a room of employees experiencing poor leadership will look unhappy, demotivated, and unsure of what they are doing.
Here Henman is observing a grass-court tradition of which his forebears would be proud and which is the reason for his being such a threat at Wimbledon.
"I think I learned more about acting from observing her in that way.
"Unfortunately a combination of the general proprieties of observing the secrecy of budget decisions, together with the difficulty of reaching senior levels of the Papua New Guinea government in the days before the budget prevented that from happening in the way we would have liked that to happen".
Lang looks on at a childhood world, seen from above and at a distance, not with the children but observing them.
Observing her at work was a great opportunity to learn how to achieve goals.
Others, like Richard Long, do so simply by walking through the landscape and being and observing, encouraging us all to see better and be more fully present in the world.
In 2009, President Kikwete introduced him to Barack Obama, who was much taken by his dynamism, observing that he was the sort of politician likely to help transform the fortunes of the continent.
Related: Dominic Grieve: quitting ECHR could damage UK's constitution The dispute over UK membership "marks a potentially revolutionary turning point in a previously consistent national approach of building, observing and working within international obligations", he said.
