Quotes About Visibility

I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

People live their lives thinking that they are forgotten, and that is why we do the most outrageous things, so as not to go unnoticed

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.

I just know I'm made for the camera.

Politicians don't say no to cameras very often.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Sometimes I wear a cap or keep my head down and walk fast, so that people don't recognize me.

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing them.

Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same background or history do not have that opportunity.

I couldn't possibly be any more open or public about my role as CEO at Patreon.

There are world champions out there that no one has heard of. I don't want to be one of those guys.

Not everybody is following every league in the world so the Champions League is a platform where everybody can see what you're still able to do.

If you play well in the Champions League you get your name out there.

With all the cable and Internet channels you have available, you have so much opportunity. If you want to say something, you can say it and have people see it.

Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

I don't want to be the country's best-kept boxing secret. I want to cross over from being a boxer on the back pages to the front pages and become the big superstar I deserve to be.

We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

Usually supply chains operate quietly behind the scenes.

To be counted in the census is to be both seen and supported.