Quotes About Involvement

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.

Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

invited parents into a book study of Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap.

at about page twenty or so, the magical thing occurred that happens only with the very best books: I became absorbed and obsessed and entered the "Can't you see I'm reading?" mode.

Finally, everyone who plays a part is, tacitly at least, implicated in the outcome.

Part You can give each person a part to play in both the plan and the outcome. People need a tangible way to contribute and participate.

This was a people's war. All the people had a stake in it. All the people had an obligation to put their hearts and wealth and blood into it. All would find their futures indelibly shaped by it.

The questions involved for the habit of discernment are: • Am I becoming more present to the triune God in all of life? • What is my sense of attentiveness to God? • What is my sense of distraction from God? • What is my belief about God's active involvement in the present moment?

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

By the war's end, non-Chileans constituted 53 percent of the first engineers; 20 percent of the second engineers;

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

They seem to think that interference is good if only they interfere. In

The danger of minding other people's business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his own business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another's affairs. The