Quotes About Participation

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.

You decide your own level of involvement.

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

We use criticism as a fake participation.

Democracy is not in need of defense. People are.

This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right. Yes, it's a bit chaotic. Certainly we will get some things wrong.

This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right.

The vast majority of you (and democracy is, after all, "majority rule") don't actively participate in, protect, fight for or even understand democracy. That's perfectly natural, mainly because you've never really had a democracy. What you have here, technically, is an oligarchy dressed down and slumming around in the hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans of democracy. In

Queaque ipsa miserrima vidi,et quorum pars magna fui. (And those terrible things I saw, and in which I played a great part.)

I wonder why men always talk about politics? Mary speculated. I suppose, if we had votes, we should, too. I

Engagement means involving individuals in the strategic decisions that affect them by asking for their input and allowing them to refute the merits of one another's ideas and assumptions.

By fair process we mean engaging all the affected people in the process

One must take human form to engage in human affairs. It was difficult.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

The first question I ask is, "Who are you trying to reach?" By that I mean, "Specifically who do you imagine being in your small groups? Who is likely to opt out? Who are you willing to leave out?

What Are You Planning to Do? The second question I ask is, "What do you plan to do in your meetings?" The options are endless. But once I know what happens in a small group, I can predict with uncanny accuracy who will come and who won't.

Instead of celebrating how many people came, the most important measurement would be how many came back.

We ask everyone to use sentence prayers (one person praying for just one item at a time). This shuts down the long-winded dominator and enables those who are new or more introverted to pray out loud much more easily. Of course, if someone doesn't want to pray, they don't have to.

In keeping with this, the human knowledge of this God advocated in the NT is to be exhibited primarily by participating in this relationship and not simply by ritual performance.

Note also Paul's portrayal of this meal as a corporate participation (koin?nia) in Jesus' body and blood (1 Cor 10:15-16), which further testifies to the centrality of Jesus in this ritual event.

this authority assigned to Jesus to dispense or send the Spirit is particularly important in reflecting what he calls a "divine christology," Jesus understood as in some real sense participating in the authority and roles of "God.

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