Spectators Quotes

283 quotes by 248 authors

Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We… — Vicki Robin
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine… — Michelangelo Antonioni
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings… — Michel de Certeau
We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how… — Tom Krause
Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success,… — Ron Brown
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the… — John Berger
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part… — Henry David Thoreau
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official… — Hugh Nibley
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,… — Heinrich Heine
Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny… — Sepp Blatter
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result. — Michael Basman
Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for… — Michael Josephson
The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only… — Samuel Johnson
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity… — Aldous Huxley
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides — Ed Ayres
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't… — Vassily Ivanchuk
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. — Paul LePaul
Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without… — Derren Brown
The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator… — Clive James

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