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Quotes About Involvement

Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
~ Orson Scott Card
All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
~ Orson Scott Card
We are only human when we are part of a community.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
~ Orson Welles
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
~ Oscar Wilde
Dimmi e dimenticherò. Mostrami e ricorderò. Coinvolgimi e capirò.
~ Confúcio
Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.
~ Confucius
If things far away don't concern you, you'll soon mourn things close at hand.
~ Confucius
I know all the people I want to know.
~ Cormac McCarthy
the only thing worse than losing is not playing. I
~ Cormac McCarthy
the only thing worse than losing is not playing
~ Cormac McCarthy
Some books you read, some you enjoy, but some books just swallow you up, heart and soul..
~ Cornelia Funke
But the people who had to use the software were never actually consulted in the purchase cycle, so why bother to
~ Cory Doctorow
Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?
~ Cory Doctorow
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
~ Cyril Connolly
A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
~ D.H. Lawrence
We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
~ Dale Carnegie
Alfred Adler, the famous Viennese psychologist, wrote a book entitled What Life Should Mean to You. In that book he says: "It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others.
~ Dale Carnegie
Idle women are always ready to mind other people's business.
~ Wally Lamb
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
~ Walt Whitman
The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman
Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect.
~ Walter Isaacson
When you help build something, you own it, you're vested in it. That's far more rewarding than having it handed down to you."111
~ Walter Isaacson
Why in the world would you involve Steve in a decision like this?" Amelio replied, getting angry. "Steve is not even a member of the board of directors, so what the hell is he doing in any of this conversation?" But Woolard didn't back down, and Amelio hung up to carry on with the family picnic before telling his wife.
~ Walter Isaacson