Quotes About Participation

It's always been important for me to do things in the community, it's part of my upbringing.

Production is a different thing. Being a Coach is different from actually getting on the field with a bat and playing upfront.

Town meetings are not bean bag. I've had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that's part of America, part of our process.

The only time I'm really upset is if we lose the game and I feel like I wasn't involved.

My government's pro-women initiatives, starting from Mission Shakti to Mamata, along with 50% reservations for women in the panchayat and urban local body polls have helped empower women in political, social, and economic spheres.

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.