Quotes About Participation

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing

Scars signal skin in the game.

Having an assistant (except for the strictly necessary) removes your soul from the game.

bottom-up political systems, and

We also saw the solution in forcing skin in the game.

There is no evolution without skin in the game.

skin in the game is necessary to understand the world.

In general, skin in the game comes with conflict of interest.

As the great game theorist Ariel Rubinstein holds: do your theories or mathematical representations, don't tell people in the real world how to apply them. Let those with skin in the game select what they need.

a system that doesn't have a mechanism of skin in the game, with a buildup of imbalances, will eventually blow up and self-repair that way.

his presence is needed at every performance

But... don't we get a say? Actually, said Cirrus, no.

partake of this body

3 "This is what I mean by worldliness—taking life in one's stride, with all its duties and problems.... It is in such a life that we throw ourselves utterly into the arms of God and participate in his sufferings in the world." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

The democratic process will always favor small, well-organized groups at the expense of large, diffuse groups. It's not just how many people care one way or the other; it's how much they care. Two percent who care deeply about something

If sane, pragmatic, moderate people ignore politics because they are disgusted with the outcomes, then it merely leaves a vacuum to be filled by more extreme and dishonest elements. Unlike baseball, democracy is not a spectator sport. Things won't correct themselves if you ignore them out of disgust. They will get worse. Look around.

The citizen has become irrelevant. He or she can participate in heavily choreographed elections, but the demands of corporations and banks are paramount.

People aren't going to vote for miserable gits in the corner saying how awful everything is.

I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.

I absolutely love 'Big Brother' and 'Celebrity Big Brother' and have never missed a series - but I would never appear on them.

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.

I don't want to be a bit-part player, I want to be right in the mix with everybody else.

I still love working. I still love being in the mix of things.

With theatre, we are always trying to engage in a conversation with people and to bring people into that conversation, but I was disappointed the audiences were not as mixed as I hoped they would become.