Quotes About Involvement

A passion for the commons revives the stakes of politics.

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners. This may reflect a broad difference in conceptions of decision making. Women expect decisions to be discussed first and made by consensus. They appreciate the discussion itself as evidence of involvement and communication.

The payoffs of indirectness in rapport and self-defense correspond to the two basic dynamics that motivate communication: the coexisting and conflicting human needs for involvement and independence. Since any show of involvement is a threat to independence, and any show of independence is a threat to involvement, indirectness is the life raft of communication, a way to float on top of a situation instead of plunging in with nose pinched and coming up blinking.

Lise, too, had been invited to join the Project but declined. She knew what they were developing. She wanted no part of it.

attempting to appear nonprejudiced through silence, avoidance, and lack of disclosure may actually make someone appear more biased because great energy is expended to conceal thoughts and feelings, thereby making the person appear less friendly or involved (Apfelbaum, Sommers, & Norton, 2008; Sue, 2010).

Passionate users of social media tools such as email, blogs, microblogs, and wikis

Once again, events beyond her control had dragged her into the middle of things. China was not impressed.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.