Onlooker Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

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
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
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
Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness. — Curt Sachs
If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed. — Jean Hugard
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
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
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
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
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
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise. — Georges Braque
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
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
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
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: