Quotes About Participation

The discussions were sparsely attended and mostly went over my head:

Patients ask questions, look up information on the Internet, seek second opinions. And they decide.

How are we persuaded to participate in our own destruction by maintaining our silences?

The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!). ~ Augusto Boal

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action! ~ Augusto Boal

The people owed it to themselves to monitor those who governed.

This was not just an American phenomenon. A survey of twenty-one industrial countries reported that in the 1970s and 1980s female employment rose twice or even three times as fast as the growth in total employment. In almost every case, married women accounted for the majority of the increase in women's workforce participation.35

Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.

Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said.

I am trying to participate

Es que a veces la gente utiliza el pensamiento para no implicarse en la vida.

Do you always think this much, Charlie?" "Is that bad?" I just wanted someone to tell me the truth. "Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life." Is that bad? Yes.

É só que às vezes as pessoas usam o pensamento para não participar da vida.

Believe it or not, I'm really not that afraid of going. I'm not sure if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will believe the same about you. Love always, Charlie

Es que a veces la gente usa el pensamiento para no participar en la vida.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

No involvement, no commitment.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

Bring to the table what you want to take away from the table!

Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to see your circumstance improve and personally grow and appreciate the victory because of it.

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

Chance or fate has, yes, participation in your life. But how much it happens, it's up to you.