Quotes About Involvement

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing moves. It's all sound and smoke, and nobody gets anywhere.

The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are dispensable.

The minimalist storyteller deliberately gives this last critical bit of work to the audience.

A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total.

My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.

there is great power in association and we do become deeply affected by the company we keep.

You can't win a game you don't play

if something's important to someone important to you, it should become important to you as well

If something's important to someone important to me, it should become important to me as well.

We all need to start demonstrating leadership, Blake, regardless of our titles. It's no longer an excuse to say you don't have a high rank so you don't need to take ownership for the results of the organization. To succeed, everyone now must see themselves as part of the leadership team. You just don't need formal authority to lead anymore—only a desire to be involved and the commitment to making a positive difference.

Even socialists steer away from any criticism of the real corporate predation, which is the predation on future generations in which we too are involved. Like

He has never been satisfied to be a mere spectator at anything. I'd take an oath he even plots in his sleep.

For many years, Rockefeller had tried to free himself from details and applauded the committee system as relegating him to a fifth wheel.

At the time, Lawson noted, Standard Oil was considered "the greatest power in the land," and its supposed involvement had stimulated a buying mania.60

Rogers and William Rockefeller had lured investors with the promise of their own involvement, but they dumped stock soon after it was issued.

Hamilton refused to drop his involvement in the Manumission Society even as his renown grew and his commitments vastly multiplied. He kept up his connection as a legal adviser until his death. Was this perhaps his personal way of acknowledging the past by rectifying the injustice that had surrounded his early years?

While keeping apart from the management of the RIMR and the GEB, Rockefeller remained more involved with the University of Chicago.

Junior decided to look elsewhere and finally selected Brown because three close friends had chosen to attend it.

Junior welcomed this firsthand exposure to urgent social problems.

I am profoundly, profoundly thankful that I had anything to do with this affair.

to come out from under and get involved