Quotes About Involvement

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded...

Ia à casa do Alipinho com mais frequência e opinava sobre tudo, inclusive sobre o preço do feijão. Queria ter uma participação cada vez maior na vida da família, familiarizar-se com os assuntos da casa. Um belo dia, começou de maneira indireta: "O casamento é uma necessidade social e natural." A

Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.

When Salt People show up, the 'flavor' of the situation improves

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.

Automation weakens the bond between tool and user not because computer-controlled systems are complex but because they ask so little of us.

McLuhan believed that preliterate peoples must have enjoyed a particularly intense "sensuous involvement" with the world. When we learned to read, he argued, we suffered a "considerable detachment from the feelings or emotional involvement that a nonliterate man or society would experience.

The more the customer is involved in the process of service production and delivery, the greater the perceived value and satisfaction. . . Consumers (as individuals and as a group of interacting subjects) become partial employees and employees become partial consumers.

Today's innovators need to figure out how to build working relationships with customers who feel that they too have a stake in the business.

I touched my reflection with a fingertip. My reflection felt nothing. That's what I wanted from the world, to feel nothing. To feel nothing and not be involved, for everything to stay comfortably outside myself and not get in. How did people survive all this knowledge of suffering in the world? How did they carry it around, day after day, and not go mad? And what would I wear tomorrow?

The Audi felt like a banker's car: beautifully machined, competent but not compassionate, giving the driver a sense of admiration, but not involvement.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

I was never mean to him, but I participated heartily when the guys teased him.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

time is the third party to every relationship.

Bir insan? gerçekten seyretmek isteyen, onun oyununa gerçekten kat?lan biri, o insan?n ancak kafas?nda ya?ayabilir.

In essence, one becomes what one participates in. In other words, I am what I look at.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.