Quotes About Involvement

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he has his own mother to deal with. She's all he can handle, as far as mothers go.

they seemed to read all the papers the school sent home, which I think is actually a little show-offy.

We all know that things go on we'd sooner not think about, an' most folk mind their own affairs. But if yer forced ter know, then yer forced ter do summink.

When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose… with a resulting improvement in mental health," Lyons wrote in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1979. "It would be irresponsible to suggest violence as a means of improving mental health, but the Belfast findings suggest that people will feel better psychologically if they have more involvement with their community.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either.

Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.

As we saw earlier, it takes only two things to turn a group of people into a tribe: • A shared interest • A way to communicate

The difference between backing off and doing nothing may appear subtle, but it's not. A leader who backs off is making a commitment to the power of the tribe, and is alert to the right moment to step back in. Someone who is doing nothing is merely hiding. Leadership is a choice. It's the choice to not do nothing. Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.

The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe "this concerns me," above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One.

As citizens are we collaborationists? To collaborate is to cooperate; to be complicit is to be an accomplice.

Cultural wars might seem an indication of strong political involvements. Actually they are a substitute. The notoriety they receive from the media and from politicians eager to take firm stands on nonsubstantive issues serves to distract attention and contribute to a cant politics of the inconsequential