Quotes About Involvement

Imagine someone with $10 finding a classroom project that speaks to them personally, seeing where their money is going, and realizing that they don't need to be a millionaire to make a difference.

There is no point having team meetings where no one speaks because you don't learn anything.

I have multiple lines and am licensing multiple projects, but I am still hands-on. It feels special. I don't take it for granted.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

I try to help out everyone at NASCAR whenever I can. It will always be a special place for me and certainly my family, so I'll do whatever I can to help the industry.

Developmental readings are actually the best part of being an actor for me. I once spent a month doing so many developmental readings at the Roundabout that we all joked that I was an 'artist in residence' there. But to me, it's such a special time to be involved with a new play.

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.

You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a reader.

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

It is good to get the racing closer to the spectators.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

When it comes to free speech and participation in the democratic process, our laws should reflect the goal of making it easier for more citizens to engage.

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.

The family farm plays such a big part in my life and I genuinely love going back there. In some ways I'd like to spend every day there, but there would be a big hole in my life if I didn't stay involved in cricket.

If you really care about a game, spending a couple of minutes setting up payment is perfectly reasonable. It's certainly happened with 'Fortnite.'

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

I've remained somewhat active in the public sphere with various things, including the occasional film.

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

It's time for the fathers to get involved in the spiritual activities of their families. For too long, the women have carried more than their share of family responsibility.