Participating Quotes - Page 3

• Energy use, transportation options, food choices, water use, purchasing choices, participating in elections, volunteering for nonprofits . . . and within each of these categories, each of us can learn to live a more conscious life.

  Jayni Chase

  Water, Volunteer, Choices

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of my brothers used to tell me all the time, "Listen, nobody is going to discover you in the living room." It's about being interactive in life and participating in your own life. Once you get a grasp on that, you understand. "OK, I can take a couple of knocks. They can hit me on the chin, and I can get up." That's what it's about. It's not about not getting knocked down but getting up. Making sure that you keep pursuing whatever that passion is. For me, that passion is entertainment.

  Omar Benson Miller

  Brother, Couple, Passion

  "Weekend Fix Actor Omar Benson Miller: Trying, Doing, and Failing". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you mentioned is and has become a recipe for disaster in the long term, because the response to social and environmental problems has been responded to with a drug mentality, which is to say, anything for the quick fix. And it has trained the public to always believe they are one purchase away from happiness.

  Leonard Peltier

  Believe, Native American, Long

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.

  Jim Nollman

  Spiritual, Art, Flower

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• And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

  Edward Hirsch

  Long, Noble, Entering

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Judging, Political, Female

  Source: content.time.com

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• The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant part of the job - in fact, I'd say I spend more of my time on this part of the job, which is deciding what the position of the United States will be in the cases that we're going to be participating in before the court.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, United States, Facts

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

  Glenn Beck

  Teacher, Retirement, Children

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

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Behavior, Should

  "NATE SILVER: As Tempting As It Would Be To 'Drop The Mic' And Leave A Winner, I'll Be Back In 2014 And 2016" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

  John Sununu

  Country, Trying, President

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• The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

  Max Weber

  Men, Hands, Everyday Routine

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.115, Routledge

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• The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

  Tiger Woods

  People, Would Be, Gains

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

  Howard Rheingold

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

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• You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

  Joel Salatin

  Children, Food, World

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

  Michel Faber

  Can Do

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• The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dancing, Mind, Brutality

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Humility, Love Is, Giving

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• Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, people who choose to dress their dogs up in outfits better suited for homosexuals participating in a gay pride parade. Dog costumes are right up there with something else I find particularly offensive: sweater vests.

  Chelsea Handler

  Dog, Pride, Gay

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• I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

  Jim Butcher

  Switzerland, Agnostic, Burden

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• The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Weed, Coffee, Old Buildings

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

  Fred Rogers

  Appreciation, Believe, Appreciate

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• Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Reading, Mean

  "Occupy". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2012.

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• When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience.... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.

  Paulo Freire

  Beautiful, Teacher, Teaching

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

  Romain Rolland

  War, Conflict, Praise

  Inter arma Caritas, Journal de Genève, October 30, 1914.

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

  Dennis Prager

  Political, Debate, Lifetime

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