Quotes About Participation

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Ambiguity begets participation.

Today is elections day and I am stepping out to help write a chapter that will form a part of my unborn children's history exam in the future.

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.

Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

You will lose not because of your abilities but because of your lack of desire to participate.

You miss all the possibilities of winning if you don't participate

Winning has a value for ego, but participation has a value for life.

Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, 'What the hell just happened?

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.