Quotes About Involvement

This was the first time he'd been involved in an intricate plot just to make a man look foolish. Men rarely needed help looking foolish.

they did not like to volunteer answers during class. These were excellent students. They prepared so thoroughly that it often seemed pointless to go over their homework. The margins of their textbooks were filled with scribbled notes. Yet they hesitated before raising their hands. When I would call on them, they would immediately get up to answer, but volunteering seemed foreign to them.

The notion of sharing attention and time is the most difficult for young children… involve your child as much as possible and activities that do not center around him. When a classmate is absent from school for an extended period of time, have your only child call to find out how he is feeling and send a get well card. Have your child offer to bring his assignments home to him or to call him each day after school to keep the homebound student up to date.

Stop talking about inclusion and engagement and start including and engaging in every conversation, every meeting.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Fotografiar es esencialmente un acto de no intervención. La persona que interviene no puede registrar; la persona que registra no puede intervenir.

It takes nothing to father a child. It takes everything to be a dad.

John Chandler, who leads a Christian community in Austin, Texas, shared this: We've by far had the most success inviting people into our community life by inviting them to serve alongside us. As a matter of fact, that's about the only thing that's worked consistently as far as "official" church activities go.

Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.

Parenthood shouldn't work this way. Fathers shouldn't get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren't dead should do their damn job.

God's purpose for the Christian's involvement in the church was radically different from my gas-station approach. The church wasn't merely a place to swing by for a fill-up. The journey of the Christian faith was supposed to be made with other believers. The church isn't a gas station, I realized. It's the bus I'm supposed to be traveling on.

Hay una diferencia entre participar e implicarse. En un plato de huevos fritos con chorizo, la gallina participa. El cerdo se implica.

First. I give a damn. About everything you do

Prayer is an activity. It is not a spectator sport. Listening to another pray is not prayer. Commiserating with your misery is not prayer, either. Prayer demands participation in communicating with God. It demands involvement, and the Scriptures marvelously involve us in prayer.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Burgerparticipatie was een ander woord voor de bemoeienis van mensen die geen idee hadden waar het over ging en veel gedoe veroorzaakten, om er uiteindelijk over te zeuren dat alles zo lang duurde.

Bürgerbeteiligung war ein Name für die Einmischung von Leuten, die keine Ahnung hatten, jede Menge Ärger verursachten und am Ende darüber meckerten, dass sich alles in die Länge zog.

You didn't realize it but you always were one of the Butcher's Boys. There you were, askin' to join the gang, when all along you were the 'eart and soul of it.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.

I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.