Quotes About Involvement

But it is a mistake to think news happens somewhere else. To others. The news is always about you. You must simply fit yourself in it. You must see how—you must be vigilant.

When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

There's nothing safe about love. Commitment takes bravery because there is every chance you'll be badly hurt. Not ever getting involved, just moving from one experience to the next—that's the safe choice.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Citizen participation is the animating spirit and force in a society predicated on voluntarism. We

Too often we believe like theists (a personal God) and act like deists (a distant, impersonal, noninteractive, uninvolved god). We say we believe in God, trust in God, and are sustained by God; but in our actions we do everything for ourselves, trusting in ourselves and anxious about the providence of God,

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as perhaps you think it is. T. E. LAWRENCE, ADVICE TO BRITISH OFFICERS, IN TWENTY-SEVEN ARTICLES, AUGUST 1917

Remote work demands social proactivity.

Creative people generally are self-motivated, independent, delighted by novelty, risk takers, tolerant of ambiguity, deeply involved in their work, avid readers, and world travelers.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.