Participants Quotes - Page 11

• If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

  June Callwood

  Injustice, Obligation, Spectators

  21 Copy quote

• I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

  Julia Roberts

  Life, Done, Want

  20 Copy quote

• Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Passion, Rocks, Expression

  "The Spirit of the Liturgy". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

  4 Copy quote

• There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Self, Historical

  4 Copy quote

• I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Important, Tasks, World

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

  Mikhail Tal

  Games, Psychology, Psychological

  15 Copy quote

• As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters and wind, and all things wild and of the Earth. On the other side, consumed with greed and in persuit of power, control and money, stand all the dark forces that lay waste to Her.

  Rod Coronado

  Warrior, Dark, Wind

  11 Copy quote

• Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Knowing, Violence

  14 Copy quote

• History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

  Alan Greenspan

  Optimism, Imbalance, Financial

  4 Copy quote

• Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Music, Time Flies, Support

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

  Janet Malcolm

  Ashes, Analysis, Mouths

  11 Copy quote

• But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Reason Why, Vote

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.273, Bantam Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

  Stephen King

  Stories, Description, Reader

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast.... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet.

  Edmund White

  Sweet, Glasses, West

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.1, University of Wisconsin Pres

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Responsibility, Guarantees That

  8 Copy quote

• If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other perspective. You need people to want to be there so they can talk at length and want to continue talking to you.

  Rod Blackhurst

  Regret, Talking, Perspective

  Source: www.mtv.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.

  Alan Bishop

  People, Males, Bars

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". July 1, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.

  George Soros

  Attention, Morality, Influence

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Another point is that ultimately, as far as the budget is concerned, of major importance is who offers more money during the bidding that must be organized as a part of the privatization process. In this sense, we cannot discriminate against any market participants, not one of them, but this is not relevant at the moment, as the Government has decided to postpone the privatization of Bashneft.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Bidding, Moments

  Source: thesaker.is

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Demand, Active

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.

  George Soros

  Creating, Agency, Risk

  8 Copy quote

• We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Differences, Making A Difference

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.

  Richard Rorty

  Religious, Children, Silly

  47 Copy quote