Nonparticipation Quotes & Sayings

With less and less television being watched live, consumers are enjoying the freedom to record at home or in the cloud, watch locally or on the go, and binge watch entire series that they never had the time to enjoy. — Jay Samit

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background. — William Barrett

I am willing for the participant to commit or not commit himself to the group. If a person wishes to remain psychologically on the sidelines, he has my implicit permission to do so. The group itself may or may not be willing for him to remain in this stance but personally I am willing. One skeptical college administrator said that the main things he had learned was that he could withdraw from personal participation, be comfortable about it, and realize that he would not be coerced. To me, this seemed a valuable learning and one that would make it much more possible for him actually to participate at the next opportunity. Recent reports on his behavior, a full year later, suggest that he gained and changed from his seeming nonparticipation. — Carl R. Rogers

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer. — Carl Andre

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn't mean they were the good ones. — Nova Ren Suma

The future belongs to those who procreate. — Duane Alexander Miller

When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture. — Gerrard Winstanley

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work. — Mason Cooley

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. — Maggie Gallagher

Until pride (vanity) leaves, there is nothing but pain, pain and more pain! — Dada Bhagwan

With Alek, her desperation for sex had changed from something base to something beautiful, from feeding an obsession to bringing someone else pleasure. He didn't think she was depraved or deranged. Alek wanted her as much as she wanted him. — Barbara Elsborg

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside. — Epictetus

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it. — Raha Moharrak