Quotes About Participation

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

about your actions. You keep me totally in

and missed the seeing Charlie participate

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Any time you can completely immerse yourself in something it's fun.

It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.

Excitement doesn't knock at your door any less when you're older than when you're younger. It's just that when you're younger, you're more likely to open the door and let it in. With age, you start growing ambivalent about excitement. You might say that you want it, but at the same time you're not sure you have the energy for it. Yet a surefire way to diminish your energy is to deny the Ultimate energy pill, which is participation in life itself.

political disengagement no longer an option for any serious person.

We are part of this ultimate reality and by nature we participate in eternal things--justice, truth, compassion, love. We have a vision of these things we have not arrived at by reason, have rarely learned from experience, and have not found in history. We feel the lack. Hope leads us toward them.