Top 100 Taking Part Quotes
#1. Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.
Marcus Buckingham
#2. Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining followers and taking part in discussions: Authenticity.
Ian Lamont
#3. Taking part in the Western mission to civilize the East is highly spiritually rewarding. And what is political destabilization and social unrest but a sweet revenge for China's disregard for Western hegemony.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#4. As everyone knows, it's not the winning that counts: it's the taking part. Nonsense! That is the battle cry of the loser. This
Tom Whipple
#5. Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round.
Tony Adams
#6. We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.
Francois Hollande
#7. If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.
Mike Godwin
#8. I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.
Frankie Boyle
#9. I'd never considered myself to be that ambitious or driven before, yet I stood there waiting for us to roll out through the start line knowing that taking part wasn't enough. I wanted to be a racer, not just a finisher.
David Millar
#10. We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
Max Hastings
#11. Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
Hank Nuwer
#12. Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
Zara Phillips
#13. It's not about the taking part. It's about the winning. It's about the hours you sacrifice in order to achieve your victory, and only you know what victory is for you, and only you know what it took to get you there.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#14. Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people's victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete.
Phil Knight
#15. All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's
Rob Bell
#16. Happiness in marriage comes from taking part in a threesome: you, your intimate partner, and God.
Nityananda Das
#18. Like hatred, guilt can't be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships.
Liam Tancock
#20. I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
Margaret Mead
#21. If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did - but for the wrong reason.
Dan O'Shannon
#22. One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera
#23. All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.
Simone De Beauvoir
#24. Sometimes it seems that we initiate a scene and sometimes it seems that we're just taking part in the scene. Actually, we're initiating them all.
Art Hochberg
#25. New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
H.G.Wells
#26. Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
Olafur Eliasson
#27. Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#28. Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.
Katherine Mansfield
#29. Business of all kinds, over the centuries, had atrophied certain sense receptors and areas of the human brain, so that for most of the fellows taking part, the present-day rituals were no more, and even maybe a little less, than hollow mummery.
Thomas Pynchon
#30. The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
Roger Waters
#31. It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing stand-up, it's inclusive.
Jon Glaser
#32. Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.
Ivo Andric
#33. Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
#34. I enjoy taking part in footballing events that are for social causes because, in my view, inspiring children through sport is a way of keeping their bodies and minds healthy as well as helping nurture their intelligence and ability to relate with others.
Shakira
#35. I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic.
Christopher Eccleston
#37. I hope you have enjoyed watching as much as I have enjoyed taking part.
Thierry Henry
#38. To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves
Frida Kahlo
#39. 'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.
John De Mol Jr.
#40. The Lord said: Time [death] I am, the destroyer of the worlds, who has come to annihilate everyone. Even without your taking part all those arrayed in the [two] opposing ranks will be slain!
Anonymous
#41. Why are you constantly escorting me places?" I say. "Isn't there a depraved activity you're supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?
Veronica Roth
#42. I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.
Roy Acuff
#43. The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
Hans Frank
#44. A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#45. Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.
Troy Vincent
#46. When you mercilessly fire deadly bullets at innocent people taking part in a debate, when you attack the Jewish community, you attack our democracy, we will do everything possible to protect our Jewish community.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#48. Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
Robert Genn
#49. The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Pierre De Coubertin
#50. I see no need in taking part in forced adolescent social rituals that would do nothing but stir up emotions of dread for all involved.
Jennifer Mathieu
#51. Unless you eat foods clearly marked "Certified organic by the USDA," you are taking part in a genetic experiment that is unprecedented in earth's long history.
Alberto Villoldo
#52. remote viewing is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object, or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information.
Joseph McMoneagle
#53. Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.
Nikki Sanderson
#54. He (The 4th Doctor) concludes, as befits his Bohemian heroism, that the quest itself fulfils the quest - to travel is better than to arrive, and taking part is more triumphant than winning.
Philip MacDonald
#55. If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse
Bob Arum
#56. Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.
Orson Scott Card
#57. I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
Elizabeth Debicki
#58. Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .
Kumari Jayawardena
#59. Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental.
Dick Powell
#60. The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete ... not victory but combat ... not to have vanquished but to have fought well ... not winning but taking part ...
Pierre De Coubertin
#61. Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either pre- or postsynaptic change is contingent upon closely occurring events in both neurons taking part in the synapse.
Gerald Edelman
#62. In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
John Pople
#63. When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
Dallas Willard
#64. I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.
Brandon Stanton
#65. For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.
Miguel Ruiz
#66. Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.
Kirby Wright
#67. [T]he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you.
Azar Nafisi
#68. If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.
Patti Stanger
#69. I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
Marvin Hamlisch
#70. People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.
Zach Braff
#71. She was still looking; I could pass as an Indian I thought. I
was part Indian too and that was the precaution I was taking from
getting mugged, a fact which I vehemently fought against back
home and was keen to adopt here. Gosh, I was a rotten hypocrite.
Dixy Gandhi
#72. There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.
Robert Breault
#73. I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major.
Wes Brown
#74. I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.
Gene Roddenberry
#75. I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony Bourdain
#76. Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.
Beverley Mitchell
#77. There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures ... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be.
Anders Petersen
#78. Being patient, feeling comfortable, taking my walks-that's part of my game.
Jason Giambi
#79. Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the effort to understand their children's point of view are likely to treat children fairly and in an age-appropriate manner.
David Elkind
#80. It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.
Kevin Durant
#81. An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
B.R. Ambedkar
#82. Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.
Steven Gerrard
#83. Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, 'Don't risk it.' Because it's only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.
Sabrina Jeffries
#84. I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.
Robert Downey Jr.
#85. Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.
Frederick Lenz
#86. It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing is taking the instrument out of the case. To begin is to be half done!
Joey Reiman
#87. All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#88. I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.
Diablo Cody
#89. Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.
Avery Johnson
#90. I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character.
James Lafferty
#91. As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
Elizabeth Berg
#92. You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
Sally Mann
#93. Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.
Sarah Dessen
#94. Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.
Johnny Weir
#95. More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.
Walter Munk
#96. My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
Patricia MacLachlan
#97. Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
Thomas Jefferson
#98. I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.
Michael Pitt
#99. I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.
Beyonce Knowles
#100. A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.
Wes Craven
