Top 88 Observer Quotes

But now that I’m cartooning full-time, I’m more of an observer. I’m talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it’s not like being in the trenches.

The value of art is in the observer.

Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.

Any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.

Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That’s clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country’s national psyche.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

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

I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted.

I think my sister loves being an observer more than I do.

When I hear people flatteringly say, ‘You’re an expert on East Asia…’ I’m certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there’s always something behind the wall in China.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it’s completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don’t open fire on you.

As an observer, I’m analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing… I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

You’ve got to be an observer. And you’ve got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

I’m a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that’s just the way it’s going to be.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on ‘Big Brother.’ You’d see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical – a huge observer.

The one thing I’ll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.

I get to pick so many things as an actor. Also, I’m a good observer of people and their mannerisms.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which you comport yourself. As an observer of the presidency, I have to wonder if Trump would follow that pattern.

I think I’m a bit like Ishmael in ‘Moby Dick’: a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life… I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.

I prefer to put myself in an environment that’s further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

As journalists, because you don’t carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

A man’s character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

I didn’t go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and ‘The Observer’ is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

As an observer of markets – whenever everyone focuses on one thing – like Greece and Europe – maybe they miss issues that are far more important – such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

One of my favorite things to read in the ‘Observer’ is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won’t ever have the time to go to.

To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

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.

Any observer is an intruder in the domain of a wild animal and must remember that the rights of that animal supersede human interests. An observer must also keep in mind that an animal’s memories of one day’s contact might well be reflected in the following day’s behavior.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

In dream consciousness… we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

I started working for the ‘NY Observer’ when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, ‘Your stories are the most talked about stories in the ‘Observer’; you should have your own column.’

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don’t know if it’s my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.

Being editor-in-chief of the ‘Guardian’ and ‘Observer’ is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.

It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.

I really like the Observer. I think I’d love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I’ve always had a very happy experience writing for them.