Quotes About Involvement

Nicht einmal der Teufel kann so scharfe Augen haben wie Nachbarn.

But other priests were perpetrators, participating directly in the firing squads.62

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

being a part of a club helps you to be an active person, involved in community life and with a sense of responsibility for the collective. This is important for developing a society of trust.

The theory is that being a part of a club helps you to be an active person, involved in community life and with a sense of responsibility for the collective. This is important for developing a society of trust. There's lots of research to show that being part of a club helps develop trust as it encourages us to live a connected, associational life – which is good for us and makes us happy.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Fire is the most tolerable third party.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

Whether you see Him at work is irrelevant to the fact of God's presence in our world. He is actively and intimately involved in both the affairs of this world and the details of your life.

Enrollment is not about getting somebody to do something that you want them to do. It's about offering them the chance to do something they might want to do (in this case, becoming part of your effort).

Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to "watch the show" rather than to engage and participate.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. Anonymous

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Don't be afraid to show excitement for what you do. Too often people try to appear above the fray by staying emotionally aloof. Believe me, it doesn't work. If you're looking to stir others to action--from returning your phone calls to getting your project approved--get them excited about what you're doing. You'll see surprising results.

The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a good deal faster than it does.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.