Quotes About Participation

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Believing in Christ's resurrection therefore does not mean affirming a fact. It means being possessed by the life-giving Spirit and participating in the powers of the age to come.

If you are not fully in the game you are playing, however, you are not truly playing it.

I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.

Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.

It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter.

When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.

We have a two-party system that I think can work well if people make an effort.

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

The cool thing about 'Hearthstone' is, in terms of accessibility to competitive play, it's very accessible. Anybody can participate in these types of things.

It just makes me laugh, when you talk to people who are 'typical' men, masculine, they watch sports and they can armchair quarterback, but they don't do anything themselves and they judge your masculinity.

I will be very involved in Ukraine.

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.