Observer Quotes

253 quotes by 219 authors

A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one… — Erving Goffman
If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer. — David Tudor
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being thereâ€¦the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity.… — Joe Haldeman
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. — Jean Houston
TheÂ environmentÂ itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who… — Maria Montessori
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other,… — Kenneth Lee Pike
The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies… — M.C. Escher
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an… — Maria Montessori
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I… — Galen
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science. — Aleister Crowley
S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the… — Paul E. Gray
The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The… — Vasco Ronchi
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in… — Aries Spears
Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the… — Hakim Bey
An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy. — Susanna Kaysen
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all… — George Gamow
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is… — Harold Brodkey
To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their… — Isaac Watts
. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness,… — Laozi

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