Participant Quotes

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

In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant. — Stormy Smith

Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor. — Bryant McGill

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. — David McCullough

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. — Craig Ferguson

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

Once you witness an injustice, you are no longer an observer but a participant." ~ June Callwood. — June Callwood

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it. — Moondog

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant. — Aimee Bender

Participant Inc. gallery, — Kim Gordon

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. — Zoe Saldana

The objective observer always has the advantage over a direct participant. — Vadim Zeland

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant. — Paul Auster

I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook. — Aeriel Miranda

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision. — Noam Chomsky

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. — Olafur Eliasson

Workouts should be tailored to the participant rather than the participant tailored to the workout. — Charline Ratcliff

Victimization is often a dynamic. In many cases the victim is also a participant in their own victimization. — Bryant McGill

The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy. — Ted Leonsis

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in. — Douglas Pagels

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. — Diane Ravitch

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience. — Alexandra Robbins

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. — Stanley Hauerwas

He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence. — Guillaume Musso

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator. — Robin McGraw

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.) — Dale Dauten

You stop talking about things when you've worked them out. You're no longer an observer but a participant. You're too busy for this bullshit. — Caitlin Moran

If you're going to win the race you have to be a participant — Peter Legge

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity. — Vernon A. Walters

Activities and passions pursued during the fringe hours make a life more beautiful and the participant feel more alive and more uniquely herself. — Jessica N. Turner

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant . — Osunsakin Adewale

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own. — Ludwig Von Mises

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. — Martin Luther King Jr.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it ... — Nicholas Sparks

You are not an observer, you are a participant. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself?
McLUHAN: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant. — Marshall McLuhan

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. — Edmund Burke

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. — Greg Boyle

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. — Stephen King

Perhaps the reason why my life is so monumentally messed up is because I am an active participant. — Alisa Mullen

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. — Kenneth L. Pike

In life, be a participant, not a spectator. — Lou Holtz

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. — Edward Norton

Unreturned love is like a meal with only one participant. — Michael Bassey Johnson

When all you can do is watch things play out for someone, it is often just as painful for the observer as it is for the participant. — Torry Martin

The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company). — Jeffrey Skoll

She is emerging (she has no choice) / into a place / like sex or childbirth, / one thing to the observer, something very different to the participant. — Kathleen Ossip

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. — Rebecca Solnit

I want to help you, but you have to be a willing participant. If you're not, then I am no longer helping you up; it is you who is pulling me down. — Steve Maraboli

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture. — Danny Bonaduce

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change. — Robert Rauschenberg