Quotes About Participation

we can no longer consider ourselves merely onlookers who have no effect on the world that we're observing.

In a participatory universe of our making, why should we expect it to be difficult to have the power to create?

Through the Divine Matrix, we participate in the constant change that gives meaning to life. The question now is less about whether or not we're passive observers and more about how we can intentionally create.

Nowhere does Niemeyer set out a specific aesthetic. In "The Autonomous Man" he notes that the imagination can be used for good or ill. In the broadest sense, he believed that the imagination could move either in the direction of autonomy, creating self-enclosed systems, or in the direction of participation, that is, a deepening of our sense of the mystery that surrounds our existence.

The functions of governments necessarily increase in proportion as the indifference and helplessness of the citizens grow.

Children's success in life depends not on whether they can read, but on whether they do

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

Achieving a more conscious participation in a richer story proves a great gift after all.

The object is not to win or lose, for that is already decided, and already irrelevant80—for us it is rather to be on the playing field, with utmost exercise of élan and investment of spirit to the end.

Pretty damn boring to be a spectator in your own life.

Max: Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you. Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy) Max: (throws another pinecone at him) Iggy: Quit throwing things at me! Max: Glad you could join us.

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

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good ideas. Junior was there, saying hi to people and getting petted like crazy. We also had homemade dog biscuits from Grandma Dotty to give away. And I drew the T-shirt designs myself. "Step right up! Check it out!" Flip kept saying. Georgia was signing up customers. And I helped Magic Murray

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious – but it's all I can say right now.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

I'm somebody who is really unhappy if I don't play.

I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Whenever someone forces me to do something against my will, they're infringing upon my freedoms and my liberties. And that's what I think we're doing in Maine when we have fair share, which means that you are required to belong to a union, you're required to pay dues, but you don't want to participate.

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.

There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.