active participants Quotes

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?

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

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.