Quotes About Participation

I tell you, mythology I think of as the homeland of the Muses, the inspirers of poetry. And to see life as a poem, and yourself participating in a poem, is what the myth does for you.

The one who watches athletic games instead of participating in athletics is involved in a surrogate achievement. But when you think about what people are actually undergoing in our civilization, you realize it's a very grim thing to be a modern human being. The drudgery of the lives of most of the people who have to support families—well, it's a life-extinguishing affair.

O piloto] Orr era louco e podia ser dado por incapaz. Bastava-lhe pedir, e a partir do momento em que o fizesse deixaria de ser louco e teria de participar em novas missões. Seria louco se participasse em novas missões e mentalmente são se não o fizesse, mas neste último caso teria de voltar a voar. Se o fizesse, seria louco e não teria de o fazer, mas se não quisesse, estaria em plena posse das faculdades mentais e deveria fazê-lo.

went out for sports as others did, in an affable herd.

Historically, women have either been excluded from the process of creating the definitions of what is considered art or allowed to participate only if we accept and work within existing mainstream designations. If women have no real role as women in the process of defining art, then we are essentially prevented from helping to shape cultural symbols.

I am and have a being and play a part.

...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Thus, Sabbath is a mighty antidote to an economy of depletion and diminishment, because it entails participation in a community that does not believe that human well-being and worth are established by endless productivity.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.

El trabajo en sí mismo no es una maldición de Dios, sino una participación en su obra creadora, un acto redentor y positivo, noble en sí mismo y digno de lo mejor del hombre, igual que fue digno del mismo Dios. Darse cuenta de que, cuando Dios se hizo hombre, se convirtió en un trabajador contiene una espléndida verdad. No fue rey, ni jefe de una tribu, ni un guerrero, ni un estadista o un destacado líder de las naciones, como algunos esperaban del Mesías.

Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining

you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

As with a symphony, it is important to be able to contribute your part while simultaneously listening to and blending in with others.

Even though I know I'm not going to win, competing is more fun than sitting at home complaining.

It's fun to win, sure, but if you only have fun when you win, you completely lose the joy of just playing a game, and being part of a team that works together. You're not going to win every game you play, so if winning is the only way you have fun, you're going to have a bad time pretty often.

The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

We are not merely spectators of the world but investors in it

The word experience comes from the Latin experientia, meaning 'to try', whereas the word aware comes from the Greek horan, meaning 'to see'. Experience implies participation in an event, whereas awareness implies observation of an event.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.