Quotes About Participation

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

I tried the swimming team, but nobody came to the matches. But they did show up for the plays.

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

If we want people to think, we must also want their thoughts to be communicated; and we must support a political constitution that confirms the public nature of thought.

Jesus warns his disciples they will all succumb more or less to the contagion that seizes the crowd, they will all participate to some extent in the Passion on the side of the persecutors.

Far better to give your readers some hints and then allow them to fill in the blanks for themselves. This

You want to draw your readers into the world you've created, make them feel a part of it, make them forget where they are. And you can't do this effectively if you tell your readers about your world secondhand. You

the images of Revelation are symbols with evocative power inviting imaginative participation in the book's symbolic world. But they do not work merely by painting verbal pictures. Their precise literary composition is always essential to their meaning. In the first place, the astonishingly meticulous composition of the book creates a complex network of literary cross-references, parallels, contrasts, which inform the meaning of the parts and the whole.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

this country has made a Fetish of democracy in the community, but in large part it's a guilty conscience because it's missing from the work life. And what possible excuse is there?

The most important part of civics education is to turn students into active citizens.

It turns out that if you ask people, the day before the election, whether they intend to vote, you can increase the probability of their voting by as much as 25 percent!

The tens of thousands of fans posting to online forums have more control over what happens next than any of the upper brass.

You have a right to be present. A right to attend. A right to be astonished.

In fact, the best of modern theology is revealing a strong "turn toward participation," as opposed to religion as mere observation, affirmation, moralism, or group belonging. There is nothing to join, only something to recognize, suffer, and enjoy as a participant.

Clearly, you are participating in a Love that's being given to you. You are not creating this. You are not generating this. It is being generated through you and in you and for you. You are participating in something larger than yourself and you are just allowing it and trusting it for the pure gift that it is.

I think humans prefer magical religion, which keeps all the responsibility on God performing or not performing, whereas mature and transformational religion asks us to participate, cooperate, and change. The divine dance is always a partnered two-step.

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.

spirituality" which means that things are only found to be true in the doing of them.

True religion is always a deep intuition that we are already participating in something very good, in spite of our best efforts to deny it or avoid it.