Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

Life is not a spectator sport.

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

When you go to a club and always sit on the bench and look at the team, it is not easy.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

Take part. Contribute. Be interested in everything and everybody.

It is important to be involved in everything.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.