passive observer Quotes

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.

The spectator is a dying animal.

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

I don't really talk that much. I just watch and observe.

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.

Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.

I am not active in sharing my views on social media but I observe a lot.

I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

As a kid, I was always more interested in watching others than being the centre of attention. I've always felt that you can see a lot more and learn a lot more when you're standing on the edge.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.

we're watchers of this world aren't we? not players