Quotes About Participation

When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Somebody once said that good conversation should be like a tennis match, with each player gracefully sending the ball back across the net; instead, most conversation is like a golf game, with each player stroking only his own ball, and waiting impatiently for the other to finish.

The only way to avoid trouble is to avoid living.

We are united to Christ who is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, and participate in the risen Humanity of Christ so that we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.

If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.

Por un momento no tuve claro si estaba soñando o despierto, porque me sentía como si acabase de entrar en un cuento, y la idea de que podría hablar con sus protagonistas y participar en los acontecimientos me produjo vértigo

what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story.

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

There is no point having team meetings where no one speaks because you don't learn anything.

If you come from a family like Gandhi family, people have high expectations. He needed to perform. I wish Rahul could have more attendance, participated more, and believed in democracy, in the parliamentary system. He speaks more outside, less in Parliament.

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

I'm not a good spectator; I'm a nightmare when I'm injured and I'm not playing.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.