Quotes About Participation

Consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

in the long run optimal experiences add up to a sense of mastery—or perhaps better, a sense of participation in determining the content of life—

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful. But in the long run optimal experiences add up to a sense of mastery—or perhaps better, a sense of participation in determining the content of life—that comes as close to what is usually meant by happiness as anything else we can conceivably imagine.

Without interest in the world, a desire to be actively related to it, a person becomes isolated into himself.

Involvement is greatly facilitated by the ability to concentrate. People who suffer from attentional disorders, who cannot keep their minds from wandering, always feel left out of the flow of life.

In the long run optimal experiences add up to a sense of mastery--or perhaps better, a sense of participation in determining the contents of life--that comes as close to what is usually meant by happiness as anything else we can conceivably imagine.

Joyful people are participants. They don't miss the moments. They turn moments into memories.

I no longer participate in the Section 8 program. They are very difficult to deal with in my town and cause you a ton of grief; no rent payments for the first two months and constant headaches and frustration. I had participated in my local Section 8 program since 1991 but as of three months ago, I will not accept any folks on the Section 8 Program.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.

Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people. While carnival lasts, there is no other life outside it. During carnival time life is subject only to its laws, that is, the laws of its own freedom.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

Every day passes whether you participate or not.

Whatever comes to you, you must engage it somehow. You receive it, you may alter the circumstance and let it go, you may interject something of your own into it, or you may knowingly let it pass. Whatever you do, there is no need to be apathetic toward life. Instead, full participation in all things is the surest way to happiness, vitality, success, and a deep knowledge of Tao.

La participación estudiantil, para mí, es el motor de la transformación y de la democratización de la universidad.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

The dreams of others must not be the hurdle for your's, but the pain of others must be the part of your version of dream in the way that you could feel the satisfaction because you know deep in your heart that they deserve to be helped because they are in pain for true participation and for the improvement of many lives, The dream must have this essential trait of improving your character by lifting up the moral values of the society"

necesitamos partidos políticos más fuertes, más modernos y más democráticos, que estimulen y faciliten la participación.

los partidos políticos sirven (o deberían servir) de intermediarios entre la gente y su gobierno. Su función es conectar los deseos y necesidades de los votantes con las actividades y decisiones del gobierno. A

El pueblo se siente, emisión a emisión, parte viva del gobierno. El efecto mediático del programa es irrefrenable.

La conversación es ahora, por necesidad, entre muchos más actores.

Restoring trust, reinventing political parties, finding new ways in which average citizens can meaningfully participate in the political process, creating new mechanisms of effective governance, limiting the worst impacts of checks and balances while averting excessive concentrations of unaccountable power, and enhancing the capacity of nation-states to work together should be the central political goals of our time.

We are the imagining animals. We are the ones who participate in the earth's evolutionary process of imagination. For what is every manifest life-form and activity on earth if not the product of earth's imagination? Imagination, which is a form of memory moving both forward and backward in time; i.e., the creative process itself. Perhaps

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.