Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.
My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.
I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves. Who's turned us round like this, so that we always, do what we may, retain the attitude of someone who's departing? Just as he, on the last hill, that shows him all his valley for the last time, will turn and stop and linger, we live our lives, for ever taking leave.
We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
Drinking is not a spectator sport.
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
Don't live life as a spectator.
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
Life is not a spectator sport.
