Quotes About Participation

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.

This delight which God has in his creature's happiness cannot properly be said to be what God receives from the creature. For it is only the effect of his own work in and communications to the creature, in making it and admitting it to a participation of his fullness, as the sun receives nothing from the jewel that receives its light and shines only by a participation of its brightness.

If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

I'm convinced that, unfortunately, the general direction of rule changes for a long time has been to carve out greater space for the individual athlete while curbing the impact of team play. This narrows the opportunities to participate. In general, only "cookie cutter" athletic prodigies get serious looks. In my opinion, tinkering with the game to distort the natural balance between team and individual play is counterproductive.

It] was approached from a distance and gingerly, held at arm's length by outsiders who clearly lacked any sense of fondness for or participation in the forms they were studying.

In many cases, though individuals may not do the particular thing so well, on the average, as the officers of government, it is nevertheless desirable that it should be done by them, rather than by the government, as a means to their own mental education—a mode of strengthening their active faculties, exercising their judgment, and giving them a familiar knowledge of the subjects with which they are thus left to deal.

the object [which] ought to be principally aimed at ... is not the subversion of the system of individual property, but the improvement of it, and the full participation of every member of the community in its benefits

the incredible inventiveness of the American people, a natural by-product of three factors: an open-source learning tradition; a heterogeneous, mixed-age society which didn't exclude the young from full participation; and a government presence without heavy-handedness.

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

Everybody gets to play.

Everybody in this room knows the basic rule: if you don't have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.

children, especially as they get older, should be increasingly involved in coming up with solutions for facing challenges.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Toda participación en las agitaciones temporales es tiempo perdido y malgasto inútil. […]

In the end, ... that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

Most of us do not live especially holy lives, after all. We spend most of our time sitting in traffic, paying bills, and being irritated with one another. Yet every week we are invited to stop all of that for one hour at least. We are invited to participate in a great drama that has been going on without us for thousands of years, and one that will go on as long as there is a single player left standing.

I love crowds. They make me feel part of something big and important.

Living is about doing, not watching, not waiting.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Multiple layers of purpose are always involved in any event, and the greater number of people engaged, the more energy generated. Participation, by thought, word, or deed, strengthens a thought-form with the potential to energetically alter the course of human consciousness in any direction. The emotional intensity behind the thought-form determines the outcome.

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Be mindful that the world that you want to live in and that you need to live in needs you to create it; it needs your input. The world needs to hear what you have to say. The last word has not been spoken.