Onlooker Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
— Valerius Geist
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The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones.…
— William H. Whyte
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Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in…
— Cyril Burt
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Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.
— Curt Sachs
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If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.
— Jean Hugard
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The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In…
— Charles S. Maier
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My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more…
— Euell Gibbons
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He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had…
— Hermann Hesse
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When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may…
— Steven Moffat
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Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
— Georges Braque
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Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen…
— Robert Hughes
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When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
— Susanna Clarke
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The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and…
— Carlos Castaneda
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My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that…
— Robert Frank
Who Wrote These Onlooker Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Onlooker Quotes as follows: