Spectator Quotes

192 quotes by 171 authors

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. — Jean Cocteau
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
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
In no other sport must the spectator move. — John Updike
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
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
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
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
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
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
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by — Lou Holtz
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
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett
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
Democracy is not a spectator sport. — Marian Wright Edelman
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
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
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
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

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