Quotes About Participation

We are perpetually invited to participate more consciously in the dep motion of faith, learning to wonder in a larger frame and awakening to bigger questions and larger dreams" p49

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want to be in the pool just like those people in the pool. It's just a fact of nature.

Political involvement is reduced to minimal, anodyne terms: "People everywhere want to say what they think; choose who will govern them; worship as they please; educate their children—male and female; own property; and enjoy the benefits of their labor.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you're dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.

Generally speaking, the person initiating the conversation can expect to do 90% of the talking for the first two minutes. After that, the conversation (if you've reached the hook point) will be much closer to 50/50 talking.

Encourage the volunteering of more information. "So what happened next?" or "Tell me more about that" would be proper to extend a conversation.

Games are not fun when you don't know you're playing.

Even if some women were physically and mentally capable of participating in a warrior's group, this very rarely happened.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Change won't come from the top, Change will come from mobilized grassroots.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.