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The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company). -- Jeffrey Skoll
Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after. -- Jeffrey Skoll
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity. -- Vernon A. Walters
God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. -- Greg Boyle
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. -- David McCullough
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. -- Kenneth L. Pike
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture. -- Danny Bonaduce
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
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
Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. -- Twyla Tharp
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving. -- Lynn Davies
I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media. -- Bob Beamon
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
The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious. -- Steven Moffat
I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant. -- Joan D. Vinge
As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight training by the Russian space federation having passed the necessary medical and physical tests. -- Sarah Brightman
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game. -- Ben Macintyre
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas. -- J. G. Ballard
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter. -- Tony Judt
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world. -- Galen Rowell
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian. -- Greg Graffin
I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually. -- Steve Albini
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject. -- Sam Raimi
I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm! -- Rodney Atkins
In life, be a participant, not a spectator. -- Lou Holtz
You are not an observer, you are a participant. -- Nhat Hanh
You are not an observer, you are a participant. -- Nhat Hanh
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. -- Olafur Eliasson
Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant. -- Paul Auster
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. -- Stephen King
If you're going to win the race you have to be a participant -- Peter Legge
I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator. -- Robin McGraw
I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant. -- Aimee Bender
The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience. -- Alexandra Robbins
The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy. -- Ted Leonsis
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it... -- Nicholas Sparks
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. -- Craig Ferguson
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself?McLUHAN: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant. -- Marshall McLuhan
I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it. -- Moondog
We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator. -- Howard Rheingold
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
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
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence. -- Lewis Mumford
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
Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position. -- Mikhail Tal
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.
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
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
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
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
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates. -- Olafur Eliasson
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
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
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person. -- Joe Berlinger
... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it. -- Ezra Stoller
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building. -- Mary Oliver
The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice. -- Chris Avellone
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity. -- George Soros
The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know. -- Taryn Simon
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual. -- Jacques Barzun
Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant. -- Mitch Joel
Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church. -- James MacDonald
Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group. -- Byron White
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature. -- William Ames
As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules. -- George Soros
I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant. -- Julia Roberts
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them. -- George Soros
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function. -- George Soros
To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today). -- Richard Wiseman
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking. -- John Sexton
I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved. -- Nelson Mandela

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