Quotes About Participation

Jury selection continued with only the judge and the prosecutor participating.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

So the real task is to equip the 'generalized other' with a 'common good' that puts everyone in the same position to understand his or her value for the community without restricting the autonomous realization of his or her self. In this kind of society, subjects with equal rights could mutually recognize their individual particularity by contributing in their own ways to the reproduction of the community's identity.

Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

The reason why we have 19 percent women in places like Congress is because we don't run at the same rate as men. And I think one of the things we're starting to realize is we have to step into the arena.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

When we go and play live... we go and we work with like different organizations: the food banks, homeless shelters, children's hospitals or different homes that are reaching out to people. And just to actually go and say, 'Hey, don't just hear me play, come to my concert, that's it, hope you have a good night.' It's like, 'Hey, come be a part.'

I think it's one of the secret sauces to our success, if you will, is that our fans are a part of our show. They engage, they chant, they cheer, they boo. There's a problem when they don't react. So, in essence, every live event is like a focus group. So we are getting that real-time feedback from them in the arena.

Any reaction is better than none.

It's absolutely fine to be a bit more reactive and not chase after the ball at times. But you cannot be passive.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.

People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

I really believe you've gotta put the power in the people. They're the ones who are gonna make the experience.

Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.