Quotes About Participation

Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.

Any religion is a book sealed with seven seals for the one who doesn't understand that witnesses to the beliefs and thoughts of ancient man are to be found always in nature. The fall of man into history brought with it the participation of nature in history.

Don't assume that it's too late to get involved

Don't assume it is too late to get involved.

The biggest lesson is you get the country you work for. If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you want. You have to be active.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.

Dado que toda a leitura consiste em uma atividade, então toda a leitura tem de ser ativa. A leitura totalmente passiva é algo impossível - afinal, não conseguimos ler com os olhos paralisados e com a mente adormecida.

o leitor ou ouvinte são como o apanhador (catcher) num jogo de beisebol.

Reading a book is a kind of conversation. You may think it is not conversation at all, because the author does all the talking and you have nothing to say. If you think that, you do not realize your full obligation as a reader—and you are not grasping your opportunities.

The mistake here is to suppose that receiving communication is like receiving a blow or a legacy or a judgment from the court. On the contrary, the reader or listener is much more like the catcher in a game of baseball.

become at home in this imaginary world; know it as if you were an observer on the scene; become a member of its population, willing to befriend its characters, and able to participate in its happenings by sympathetic insight, as you would do in the actions and sufferings of a friend.

Low periods are a good time to work out the techniques and ways of involving people, ways of having people begin to use critical judgments. In a movement period, it's too late after you get going to stop and do these things. People are too busy doing something else.

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

everyone's place to do it

she was one of them again, one of the actors moving in the stage, as graceful as any of them.

Douglass's hesitation was understandable. His own letters and speeches were consistently full of retribution and bloodshed, but Douglass never actually participated in any such activities.

To remember is not a punishment, Asher. To remember is a victory against the sitra achra, against Hitler, may his name be erased. The film is a sanctification of the name of God. Why should I not participate in it?

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Just because I have joined the BJP does not mean that I am an active BJP member.