Observation With Participation Quotes & Sayings

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real. — James Rouse

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. — Emile M. Cioran

There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous. — Justin Vernon

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say to God: 'I love you, too.' — Henri Nouwen

Hell no. It'd been three long months since his good-bye party in Cincinnati, which meant three long months since anyone had hefted his main hose except him. — Samanthe Beck

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!" — William James

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up. — Keith Haring

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation. — Walter Scott

It takes a strong heart to drive on clogged arteries. — Tim McCarthy

Now the parable takes on a very personal focus. We can no longer enjoy observation without participation. We are part of the drama that is staged in this parable. Jesus came. What have we done with the truth of His message and the gift of His forgiving death? — Lloyd John Ogilvie

If we can not Think for ourselves how we want to Judge others? — Jan Jansen

I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers. — Chelsey Philpot

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. — V.S. Naipaul

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you. — William Zinsser

There is a production and distribution pact, so they help with the production financing and take international territories and do international distribution and marketing. — Courtney Solomon

[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it. — Jane Mayer

This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are - the result of everything that has happened. It all just is. — Richard Templar