Quotes About Involvement

fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

En otras palabras, el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso de participar en la construcción de esas cosas. El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre de impulso creativo, y por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final

el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas. El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre del impulso creativo y, por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final.

el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can't fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can't heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

Third: Become an advocate. By which I mean, pick an issue that means a lot to you (immigration, mental health, clean water) and look for an organization that's doing work on that issue. Join. Give them your email address. Go to the meetings. Become a foot soldier. You'd be surprised how quickly foot soldiers in these organizations can become

showing up in person makes the biggest difference of all