Top 168 Observers Quotes & Sayings

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers.

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

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.

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

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

I never practice calls. Everything you hear is reactionary. The way I look at it is that broadcasters are just paid observers, just there to tell you what we see.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

Harassment doesn't just happen to 'social observers' and 'comedians' - women who express themselves publicly are reliably verbally attacked online and in person, not for their substance but for their form.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

Of course, no one doubts McCain's personal tenacity, from braving torture to overcoming cancer. Yet plenty of nonpartisan observers doubt his credibility.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.

Who will observe the observers?

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

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

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

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.

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

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.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Theodore Roosevelt is a natural choice for leadership education. Along with many other observers, I believe he was among the greatest of leaders to serve as president.

I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

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.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

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.

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.

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

Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That's when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

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.

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.