Quotes About Participation

Prayer is an activity. It is not a spectator sport. Listening to another pray is not prayer. Commiserating with your misery is not prayer, either. Prayer demands participation in communicating with God. It demands involvement, and the Scriptures marvelously involve us in prayer.

Burgerparticipatie was een ander woord voor de bemoeienis van mensen die geen idee hadden waar het over ging en veel gedoe veroorzaakten, om er uiteindelijk over te zeuren dat alles zo lang duurde.

Bürgerbeteiligung war ein Name für die Einmischung von Leuten, die keine Ahnung hatten, jede Menge Ärger verursachten und am Ende darüber meckerten, dass sich alles in die Länge zog.

if one read [Lady Whistledown's Society Papers] often enough, one could almost feel a part of London society without actually attending any balls.

I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.

We live inside a democracy, and you know, public will matters in a democracy. I just hope it's informed public will, and frankly, when the decisions are made, you understand the costs.

As a former school teacher, I know the importance of keeping everyone informed of what is going on in our schools.

I was very young when I made my debut. I was only 16 and it was a bit of a shock that I was involved, but there were a lot of injuries.

My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.

See, I am not a writer. 'Nach Baliye' has its own creative team and a brilliant one at that. But I will give my own inputs if I feel I can improve something.

We should be looking to inspire every living person in this country to play the game of cricket.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.

One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor... so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally.

I don't want people at my shows to come out and say, 'I just saw a cool show.' I want them to say, 'I had fun at the show.' I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.