Quotes About Participation

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Life went on whether people participated in it or not

People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

70% dos cidadãos votam do mesmo modo que respiram: sem saber porque nem o quê. Votam como vão à festa da Penha, — por divertimento. A Constituição é para eles uma coisa inteiramente desconhecida. Estão prontos para tudo: uma revolução ou um golpe de Estado.

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...

The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.

You must be present to win.

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.

I think now that at the root of all my writing lies the fact that very early in life I lost the desire to participate with others on the basis laid down by society. All I have been doing, possibly, in my work, is to protest and explain wherein I'm different.

When we see that humility is something infinitely deeper than contrition, and accept it as our participation in the life of Jesus, we shall begin to learn that it is our true nobility, and that to prove it in being servants of all is the highest fulfillment of our destiny, as men created in the image of God.

Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.

The silence grew louder, more evident. One could stroke it, as one would a cat or a dog; it was warm, and it brushed up against Sergeyich gently, pleading for his involvement, his participation in its life, its sounds.

To live fully, in these transitory lives on this fragile earth, in such a way that we somehow participate in the glory of God—that would be flourishing. And that is what we are meant to do.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.