Quotes About Participation

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.

History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.

Democratic action depends upon…free spaces, where people experience a schooling in citizenship and learn a vision of the common good in the course of struggling for change. —Sara Evans and Harry Boyte, Free Spaces

This is a critical point, because too often in a team setting we have people who are in the boat but not on the team.

Our species is obsessed with play: we are either participating ourselves or watching others play for us.

Bosses need to jump in the outhouse with the grunts occasionally. It's good for morale.

Be part of the answer, not part of the mess.

Outlines are silly. Once you write the outline, there's no reason to write the story. You write to participate . . . to find out what is going to happen!

With upwards of a million people attending, give yourself over to the crowd and join a massive 100,000-strong conga line like the one that set the world's record in 1988.

If you exclude the people from participation, marginalize them, threaten their identity and nationhood, you will inevitably get sabotage and a conservative response.

what size and complexity do … is to multiply the opportunities for citizen involvement and action.

The idea of imagination implies deep participation and the harnessing of real desires in order to effect self-transformation

A story can be composed solely of (1) one action, (2) one emotion to be evoked, and (3) a one-sentence summary. Don't get lost rambling, and also make sure your listener feels that they are fully participating in the conversation.

If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.

Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one's private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history - which one both participates in and is a witness to, is a part of and apart from. Everything, therefore, is present in his mind at once, as if each element were reflecting the light of all the others, and at the same time emitting its own unique and unquenchable radiance.

Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.

If you ask one group of people whether they will participate in a charity that involves a five-mile run (grueling) and a second group whether they will participate if the event involves a picnic (pleasant), the people in the first group are more likely to agree.

We will often choose to do something rather than nothing, even if the something is effortful and provides no tangible benefits. Effort itself can be a source of pleasure.

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Six man variables... determine variation in refugees' income levels. First, regulation: the greater the degree of full participation in the national economy, the better refugees will do... Second, nationality... Third, education... fourth, occupation... fifth, gender... sixth, networks

God is rescuing fallen humanity, transporting them into his kingdom, and progressively shaping them into his likeness—and he wants you to be a part of it.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

That's the greatest thing about wikis: they combine the best features of democracy and autocracy. Everybody has an equal say. But some got bigger says than others.