Observer Quotes
253 quotes by 219 authors
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In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
— Joyce Carol Oates
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My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
— Rick Wakeman
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The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you…
— Jean-Luc Godard
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The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.
— Deepak Chopra
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I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.
— Isabel Lucas
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and…
— Douglas Harding
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The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea…
— Mark Rothko
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It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
— Johannes Kepler
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The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
— Timothy Keller
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The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're…
— Keith Richards
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Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing…
— Eddie Griffin
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It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in…
— Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
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Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
— John Derbyshire
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We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.
— Daniel Kahneman
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I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
— Giorgio Armani
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways…
— Edward Thorndike
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Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of…
— Nathan M. Pusey
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The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
Who Wrote These Observer Quotes
219 authors contributed a total of 253 Observer Quotes, led by these top contributors: