Quotes About Involvement

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

Socializing with the wrong people or getting involved with a useless conversation or harmful hearsay can cost friendships and your reputation.

People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Life is much like FACEBOOK. People will 'Like' your problems and 'Comment.' But no one is gonna solve them. Because everybody seems so busy in 'Updating' their own.

The only people who truly know your story, are the ones who help you write it.

Never be neutral, always remain vigilant, in allowing your political consciousness to spread through your life.

Your life must be so boring if you have time to sit around and gossip about other peoples business.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Presence is more than just being there.

Being there for someone is different to picking sides. Stop stirring sh.. and get out of their business.

When we read a book, though, we call it ours, don't we, and I have always said that's because readers make a book their own through reading it. They do half the work, with their own imaginations, fleshing things out, painting each character and place and event in more detail than we have actually set out on paper, and we writers merely set the readers on their way.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

you're involved with, if you get half a chance. I treated

Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on Bonanza, and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. before there was a Girl from U.N.C.L.E., not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories on The Mickey Mouse Club.

The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought!

efforts of the people you're working with, not just from your own solitary work.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.