Spectators Quotes

• To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Learning, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Life Is

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• The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

  William Feather

  Motivational, Fun, Player

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• I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Rivers, Issues

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Movie, Editing, Directors

  "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.

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• It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Mirrors, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.428, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Perfect, Facts

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

  Lou Holtz

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  Jackie Robinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Drama, Grief

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• Life is not a spectator sport.

  Jackie Robinson

  Sports, Life Is

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• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

  Confucius

  Believe, Age, Aging

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• Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

  Billy Graham

  Sports, Christian, Religious

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  Omar Sharif

  Movie, Thinking, Watches

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• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Aquariums, Flying

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• Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

  Brian Eno

  Emotional, Listening, Important

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• We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether it’s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroin—or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tube—it’s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals don’t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons

  Blanche Barton

  Sports, Military, Ignorance

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• Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

  Juha Vaatainen

  Running, Marathon, Stadiums

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• Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

  Milton Friedman

  Athlete, Ideas, Understanding

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• The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

  Francois Truffaut

  Friends, Numbers, Directors

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• Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

  Richard Ernst

  Believe, Artist, Feelings

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• To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “The Return of the Native”, p.352, Broadview Press

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• It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

  Angela Merkel

  Sports, Europe, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

  Joseph Addison

  World, Mankind, Meddling

  1711 In The Spectator, no.1,1Mar.

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• I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

  Albert Camus

  Hate, Wish, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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