Quotes About Involvement

Isn't it exhausting, one could ask, this emotionally wrought involvement with so many sources, so many intimacies? For most of us it would be. But it is this novelist's heart, this writer's strange and insatiable passion for observation, for describing in all of its spectacular complexity the bewildering and plentiful world, that raises this brilliant and unruly book from its time, and makes it a classic of cultural journalism.

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.

When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you're a participant.

It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it.

Porque puedo tener sólo dieciocho años, pero ya parece bastante obvio que el mundo se divide en dos grupos: los que actúan y los que observan. La gente a la que le suceden las cosas y el resto de nosotros, que sólo medio perseveran con las cosas. Las Lulu y las Allyson.

He'd never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He'd never had to worry about these things before because he'd never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He'd been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.

An audience is tremendously important in humor because it becomes an active participant in the performance. There is no humor until audience members get involved.

The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship, having thereby focused international attention on the brutal nature of the regime.

Sympathy would imply I might even try to help them. Pity is much safer. It can be delivered from on high without getting involved. I pity them.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.

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. The other thing that has worked is parties—birthday parties, Super Bowl parties—where we invite churched friends and unchurched friends just to connect.

Whom should you pursue? That question can be answered only after your church has done the hard work of getting to know who the unchurched are in your community. Your approach will vary depending on whether you have a substantial born-again churchless segment in your neighborhood or more people who are purely unchurched—that is, those with no background of church involvement. Your goal in both cases is to connect with the unchurched around you, but the way you approach them will differ.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Ultimately, it is through concrete communication practices that participation is put into practice, maintained, and evaluated.

So the boy's life is still in jeopardy," Ghastek said. Thank you, Captain Obvious . "It's being handled," Curran said. "I would like to be involved in that handling." "I'm sure you would," Curran said. "It's hard to believe, but I go whole days without worrying about your likes and dislikes.

when they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.

A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'll have to put up with it, and I know that later on I'll keep on wishing that I'd had the nerve to say no, even at the last minute....

he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)

Why have you LEFT POLITICS? LEFT POLITICS needs you!

I felt blank dismay, instant fear for myself. I did not want to be involved in any mess of Priscilla's. I did not even want to have to be sorry for Priscilla.

Men identified themselves with the Century with which they were associated professionally. Its battles, all too often, became their own battles.