A Quote by John Steinbeck

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck
American - Author
February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

Pat Mitchell

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

William Hazlitt

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Nelson Mandela

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

Pope Francis

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

John Lasseter

We're not a band that takes any kind of political stance. That's not what we're about as Priest. But we're observers of what's going on around us in the world.

Rob Halford

Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.

Jacqueline Woodson

Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.

Yasmin Ahmad

Who will observe the observers?

Arthur Eddington

Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.

Laurent Baheux

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

Andrei Linde

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

Lisa Unger

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

William Ernest Henley

In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

August Krogh

A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world.

Jonah Goldberg

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