Top 27 Quotes About Active Participation
#1. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#2. Happiness comes not by passive waiting, but by active participation.
Suzanne Eller
#3. Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part ... I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.
Nicholas Sparks
#4. Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#5. If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
Kofi Annan
#6. Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.
Thomas Berry
#7. Active participation on LinkedIn is the best way to say, 'Look at me!' without saying 'Look at me!
Bobby Darnell
#8. The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community.
Maria Del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu Y Franco
#9. Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
Gabrielle Union
#10. We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women
Sima Samar
#11. We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.
Tim Brown
#12. Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have been better designed to prevent a child's natural learning system from operating.
Sylvia Farnham-Diggory
#13. A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Valentina Tereshkova
#14. Peace is conscious and active participation in your own life.
Mayra Porrata
#15. I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.
Michael Heseltine
#16. Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
Kofi Annan
#17. Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
Bernard DeVoto
#18. Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
Stephen Hawking
#21. I would characterize Moonlit Nights as a mix between Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's 'The Relic' and 'Congo' by Michael Crichton. If those books had a baby and that baby was a werewolf then that would be my book!
Jacob Parr
#22. The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.
Susan C. Aldridge
#23. There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
Jerzy Kosinski
#24. You don't know how precarious things are, how close this world is to falling back into ruin.
Victoria Aveyard
#25. I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,
Fernando Botero
#26. O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
Gabriel Byrne
#27. In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
Jack Kornfield
