Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.
So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I'm going to be here for a long time.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.