#observer

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. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#avoid #become #camera #i #i am

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#all things #because #director #indeed #interesting

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. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#ballots #collecting #contact #counting #day

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned... ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#observer #poor #intelligence

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#capacity #derive #desire #feel #her

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. ↗

— George Savile

#faults #husband #observer #without

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Cleary

#knowledge #observer #conformity

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#conclude #democracy #feelings #forced #idealistic

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. ↗

— David Dinkins

#administration #am #certain #contemporary #differently

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#create #experience #including #observer #our