Quotes About Participation

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen ... those who watch things happen ... and those who wonder what happened.

Facts are neither right nor wrong; they simply are. Opinions are personal assessments and are right or wrong depending on whether they actually correspond with the facts. Therefore, only opinions can be right or wrong; facts cannot. Right and wrong are inappropriate for the description of business operations and market participation, and so are the terms win and lose. Participating in markets is not about being right or wrong, nor is it about defeat; it's about making decisions.

I got to help make dinner. You can't imagine the pleasure of wiping mushrooms and grating cheese when you haven't had a chance to do it for a long time. Then eating food you have cooked, or help cook, always tastes so much better. Auntie

If you don't look interested nobody'll know you are.

Here is where I become more than an observer and enter the story in my own right.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Somehow Jack's call for participation on a couple of local biotech hacker forums had gotten reposted to an artists' mailing list, and a bunch of poets showed up to argue with them about the true meaning of anarchy.

My job is to transcend my own agenda in order to see the wider context and my job is to cultivate the kind of spaciousness where permission is possible. I try to create the room in which everyone is both participating and responsible.

On 27 October 1946 the French constitution was finally changed to include among the basic principles of the Republic the law 'guaranteeing women equal rights to those of men in all spheres', and the national elections a month later in November were the first in which women in France were able to participate.

Abram and Antonia Chayes even redefined sovereignty itself to mean not the right to be left alone but the right to participate in international organizations and networks.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

After the success of 'Smokey,' my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.