Participating Quotes

Participating Quote of the day

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

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.

Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that's all of us participating.

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

Boycotting the referendum is a possible option ... because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

[Maxine Waters] was kind enough to join us here at our studios in Washington, D.C., in advance of women's march in Washington in which she will be participating.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.