Involvement Quotes - Page 2

• Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Football, Law, Games

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• Housing, it's not a plaything. It's not something that you can just play around with. It is, I believe, the rubric of family. It is the glue for a healthy community. And to have someone that really wants to dismantle any government involvement in making sure that every community has access to that is very scary. We should be worried.

  Jumaane Williams

  Believe, Government, Play

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Martin Rees

  Real, Hands, Fields

  "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

  Inga Muscio

  Believe, Healing, Medicine

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.50, Seal Press

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• There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier - or not - is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Commitment, Escaping, Organization

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Minimum, Crisps

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• The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Freedom, Equality

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• I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Movie, Music, Art

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• The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

  Lou Gerstner

  Real, Owners, Active

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• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• I think the leading cause of financial disablement is the belief that you can rely on the experts to help you. Investing requires an intense personal involvement.

  Michael Marcus

  Thinking, Experts, Investing

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• Mastering the art of aloneness doesn't mean living in isolation or never needing the love, support, and involvement of others. It means creating and living a life in which you feel whole and content as an individual on your own; a life in which you can take care of yourself emotionally and financially.

  Lauren Mackler

  Art, Mean, Creating

  Lauren Mackler (2009). “Solemate”, p.20, Hay House, Inc

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• I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

  Frans Lanting

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

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• Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

  Bob Filner

  Home, Exercise, Parenting

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• I think it was going to be hard to work with Russians on Syria. There is some potential overlap between the U.S. and Russia in that the Russians don't want to see the Syria situation unravel to a point where they have to escalate their own involvement. But at the moment, I don't see the U.S. and Russia on the same page in Syria. Russia seems much more interested in consolidating government control over liberated areas. It seems to me that the U.S. and Russia are proving they can disagree for independent reasons in any number of theaters.

  Richard N. Haass

  Independent, Thinking, Moments

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• Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

  George Sweeting

  Attitude, Successful, Discipline

  George Sweeting (2008). “The Joys of Successful Aging: Living Your Days to the Fullest”, p.64, Moody Publishers

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• My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Time, Children, Helping Others

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• The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

  Amir Butler

  Reality, Security Systems, Democracy

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• I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was Egypt. I've written a few books on the subject. There's no doubt that the best way to resolve Israel's problems is to negotiate peace between Israel and its immediate neighbors, particularly the Palestinians. And that's something that's not going to be achieved, in my opinion, without the strong involvement of the American president.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Book, Israel

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

  David Dinkins

  Children, Youth, Program

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• I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Military, Commitment, Understanding

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• Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Opportunity, Urban Renewal

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Outcomes

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• I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

  Cher Lloyd

  Writing, Artist, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

  Andy Behrman

  Successful, Illegal Activities, Shopping

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