#participating

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

— Glenn Beck

#children #everybody #everyone #gets #just

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#every nation #first #first time #fostered #games

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#actually #eventually #fertile #i #least

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. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#always #champions #day #dreamed #every

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. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#been #being #experience #gain #grow

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

— Will Oldham

#called #i #listening #making #music

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard. ↗

— David Petraeus

#accept #al #become #been #clear

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#contribute #development #intend #international #legislative

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. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

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

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#delude #elections #government #held #into