Quotes About Participants

#1. We are not passive recipients but active participants in our own process of perception" (Nancy Kanwisher)

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#2. I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

Gary Gygax

#3. Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants.

Donald Miller

#4. In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

Daniel Yergin

#5. Bitcoin itself has already cycled through the familiar trajectory of rebellious alternative, promising a currency independent of the state, through to a venture-capital-funded investment vehicle in which 0.1% of the participants own 50% of the coins. The debate

Tom Slee

#6. The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.

Tom Wujec

#7. It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

Emma Watson

#8. None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.

Hannah Arendt

#9. I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

James Costos

#10. And what I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

William Kent Krueger

#11. It is a good idea to remind clients to address each other rather than addressing the interpreter. Some interpreters in this situation make a point of looking down or writing in a notebook in order to encourage the participants to address each other directly.

Mary Phelan

#12. In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.

John C. Bogle

#13. Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or e-mailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants.

Ivan Reitman

#14. Psychologist Arthur Aron of SUNY Stony Brook discovered that asking participants in an experiment to share their deepest feelings and beliefs for a single hour could generate the same sense of trust and intimacy that typically takes weeks, months, or years to form.

Reid Hoffman

#15. The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants. As long as there is a greater fool around the corner willing to pay a higher price, the value will continue to rise,

Ashwin Sanghi

#16. Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail.

Hal Finney

#17. In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.

Yokoyama Sakujiro

#18. See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our lives. We have the unique opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of humankind, to be active participants in shaping a new world.

Jed Diamond

#19. Over 90% of participants are satisfied with the Birthright experience.

Charles Bronfman

#20. There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

Michael Sandel

#21. Space flight participants, commonly known as space tourists, pay between $20 and $40 million each to leave Earth for 10 days or so and go to the International Space Station (ISS) via Soyuz, the compact Russian rocket that is now the only way for humans to get to the ISS.

Chris Hadfield

#22. Love is the only game where both participants must win in order to achieve true victory.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show - the original Survivor.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#24. One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

John Sexton

#25. The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

Vladimir Putin

#26. How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

George W. Bush

#27. It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Nelson Rockefeller

#28. Since that era the question "Do you have any food restrictions?" has become a part of the etiquette of a dinner invitation, and participants at conference dinners can now tick a box that will replace a plate of rubber chicken with a plate of sodden eggplant.

Steven Pinker

#29. A picture does not lie. It has the quality of an image taken by a ghost hunter, revealing floaters and spirits that the participants had been unable to see.

Lena Dunham

#30. Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

Robert Solow

#31. Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

George Will

#32. The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

Ben Bernanke

#33. Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#34. A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Howard Rheingold

#35. Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Truman Capote

#36. Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Larry Wall

#37. But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.

Thomas Yellowtail

#38. Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Thomas Pogge

#39. I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

Ze Frank

#40. As a note, I never once refer to 'Train' as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.

Brenda Brathwaite

#41. Even such a short training period - participants averaged between five and sixteen minutes of training and practice a day - can cause changes at the neural level

Anonymous

#42. On behalf of the King, the guards requested that she stay in the palace rather than with the locals, which Alice declined as she preferred to be treated just like other participants. A

Nona J. Fairfax

#43. It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.

Richard Bach

#44. There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

Lee R. Raymond

#45. Decisions, by all accounts, including those of the participants, were made with little knowledge of, or concern for, the lands and peoples about which and whom the decisions were being made.

David Fromkin

#46. Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

Vera Caslavska

#47. The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

Sonny Barger

#48. Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.

Said Musa

#49. In Anglo-Saxon times, according to Crippen, it was customary for someone offering a drink to say, "Wassail!" and for the recipient to respond "Drinkhail!" and for the participants to repeat the exercise until comfortably horizontal.

Bill Bryson

#50. I'm waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined.

Diana Butler Bass

#51. The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees

Veronika Skvortsova

#52. Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

Mark Twight

#53. Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Edward T. Hall

#54. Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans.

Cliff Stearns

#55. Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants
even women!
new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Selma James

#56. A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.

Morton Blackwell

#57. This [June's] account poignantly illustrates many of the multi- faceted, complex, and contradictory processes contained in participants' stories.

Norma Jean Profitt

#58. 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

#59. I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take no prisoners' approach.

Srikumar Rao

#60. Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. When we remember, we focus on certain facts and emotions, and become active participants in re-creating memories.

Alexandra Robbins

#61. Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

Vladimir Putin

#62. Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

Will Rogers

#63. We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in a vast experiment, a hope that personal finance and investments would do it all for us. We now know that for all too many people, it did not.

Helaine Olen

#64. He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

Dallas Willard

#65. A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.

Stefan Collini

#66. Love can't be stolen without willing participants.

Jon Jones

#67. The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

Helen Wills Moody

#68. The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.

Nathan Lewis

#69. Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants ...

Susan Dunlap

#70. Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.

Andrew Zolli

#71. I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

Michael Moore

#72. Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

Neale Donald Walsch

#73. The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

Avinash Persaud

#74. Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#75. Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

Kate Klise

#76. Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

Justin Rosenstein

#77. Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand.

Carter G. Woodson

#78. The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.

Robert Jay Lifton

#79. The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position but not anymore likely to change their minds based on contradictory evidence. In effect, they enlist their IQ on behalf of their instincts.

Jonathan Haidt

#80. All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

Orson Scott Card

#81. Millennials were the first generation to grow up with game controllers. They are not spectators. They are participants.

Ron Davison

#82. A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work.

Pawan Mishra

#83. Had they both become unwilling participants in some sort of mad scientist's chemistry experiment to combine Man A with Woman B to see how quickly they'd combust?

Bella Andre

#84. The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

John Lewis

#85. Stone and sea are deep in life
Two unalterable symbols of the world
Permanence at rest
And permanence in motion
Participants in the power that remains

Stephen R. Donaldson

#86. To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Amity Shlaes

#87. We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

Mitchell Baker

#88. They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest, most glorious freak. They weren't protesting; they were celebrating.

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#89. What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don't believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes place when both participants are drinking or drunk, and it's not hard to guess the reason why: After a certain amount of this, you may need to get drunk to go through with it.

J. Budziszewski

#90. Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.

Giordano Bruno

#91. These brief weekly sessions helped to bring about valuable changes and health improvements in the participants. The motto was: we are all different and special, so we do not attempt to become like somebody else, but connect more deeply with our true selves.

Patrizia Collard

#92. However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,
i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

William Ernest Hocking

#93. By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

Matt Taibbi

#94. Persuasion" requires proof. It causes us to lead with process and facts instead of stories and knowledge. The lack of immediate relevance to participants feels like a waste of their time.

Kim Erwin

#95. Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it, and to uphold a general principle that under no circumstances do you provide accurate information to a cop.

David Simon

#96. After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.

Noam Chomsky

#97. In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

Harold Geneen

#98. Sin does not remain a contented servant; it seeks to seize and master its participants.

James MacDonald

#99. We are all participants in the marvelous.

James Broughton

#100. Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

Greta Van Susteren