Spectator Quotes
192 quotes by 171 authors
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
— Jean Cocteau
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People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as…
— Bill Bradley
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In no other sport must the spectator move.
— John Updike
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
— David Hume
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What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes…
— Bruce Jenner
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Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow…
— Rajneesh
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What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and…
— Marc Chagall
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
— Lou Holtz
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I do believe that it is extremely important that each one of us is a participant in life and what's going on around us rather…
— Janet Holmes a Court
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Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
— Joseph Plaskett
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The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts…
— Roman Vishniac
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Democracy is not a spectator sport.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a…
— Paul Reiser
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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its…
— Chris Hedges
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do…
— Oscar Wilde
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work…
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Who Wrote These Spectator Quotes
171 authors contributed a total of 192 Spectator Quotes, led by these top contributors: