Quotes About Involvement

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

JESUS: I'm not above it all--I'm right here in it, don't you see that?

People support what they have assisted to create.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32

By doing rather than merely studying, we create a culture. Newcomers and the young feed on that culture. They watch. They do. They, too, are changed. Our culture expands. You Americans create a system of thought. The most you ask is that people contemplate new ideas. You might ask them to give or to sometimes attend meetings, but no contagious culture is created. Nothing is offered to newcomers and the young but thoughts. So they think. They don't do." We are changed. We craft

A Supreme Being existed who insisted on concerning Himself with the affairs of men in order to draw them into friendship with Him.

When the infamous Shotts riot of '93 kicked off, Dingus was in the hall but he never started it or took any part in it whatsoever, he just sat in one of his friend's cell, smoking hash, waiting for the riot to end. Dingus had seen all the crazy shit before.