Mark Twain Quotes

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

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

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

We need to engage rather than educate people.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

When you go to a club and always sit on the bench and look at the team, it is not easy.

I never want to tell a story where I'm lecturing to the audience.

It's always good to get in contact, get involved with your teammates.

There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while.

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

It's important to be involved in different things for me.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.

Use all of your senses.

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.