Participating Quotes

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

My restaurant, Tex Wasabi's, we have a whole 'Minute to Win It' challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn't even aired and they're already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it's going to take over.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour. However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won't be making any decisions with regards to participating any time soon.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.