Quotes About Involvement

After a tragedy, those with even the slightest connections to it often exaggerate their involvement and importance.

Mary watched everything as a mere spectator.

Mary forbade this. She preferred to leave things the way they were than get involved in anything disreputable.

Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

Emma Oastler had made Jack's future her business

Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.

because when you come right down to it the school is involved in everything that happens in the war, its all the same war and the same world...

You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world, unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it!

Zelig-like penchant for being intimately involved in a series of key social and technological movements

I'd much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

The basis of all education is to learn by doing.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

I like the concept of local education.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience.