Quotes About Involvement

What would surprise people about working with LeBron is he's really into the things that he's into. And I think people don't understand that. They just think he's a basketball player, he's super busy. But he actually pays attention.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.

I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Eddie Mars would have been very unlikely to involve himself in a double murder just because another man had gone to town with the blonde he was not even living with. It might have annoyed him, but business is business, and you have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes.

Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists adopt the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It is the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand.

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Still, agreeing to an adventure and getting involved with Lou were two entirely different things. He only hoped that she understood

Hazel, watching, lent help here and there and encouraged the others.

Love is public,... or it's not love. Love is shared with others or it dies.

Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.

Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done?

The result was that, far from heeding my throbbing shame, by cleverly sidestepping the real problem I inevitably involved myself deeper and deeper.

Sometimes it was interesting and sometimes it wasn't, but right now he couldn't be bothered to go into it in detail.

We had the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, now we're living in the Interfering Age.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.