Involvement Quotes - Page 6

• My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

  Timothy Leary

  Jobs, School, Mean

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD

  Dan B. Allender

  Hands, Discipline, Decision

  Dan B. Allender (2009). “To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future”, p.186, WaterBrook

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• They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Rapids, Turnover

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• I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, Opportunity, People

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.203, Beacon Press

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• You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.

  John Brodie

  Commitment, Wrestling, Winning

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• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

  Dogen

  Short Life, Discipline, Dew

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• Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.

  William Hartung

  Military, Iraq, Needs

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• The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

  Peter Garrett

  Motivation, Mean, Opportunity

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• I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to be over. The United States has already spent billions of dollars in Iraq while our nation has endured a crumbling infrastructure, cuts to our social programs, a lack of investment in job training and creation, and sadly, a failure to take care of our veterans. Let's focus our resources at home. Over 4000 men and women have sacrificed their lives for Iraq. That is enough.

  Janice Hahn

  Jobs, Military, Believe

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• The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, Average, Iraq

  "Biden officially running for president". www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2007..

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• If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Liberty

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• Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

  David Hackworth

  Commitment, Years, People

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• The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, Champion, Energy

  Tom Peters, Nancy Austin (1985). “A passion for excellence”

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• Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yoga, Thinking, Attachment

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• Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.

  Martin Sheen

  Dream, Country, Children

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• In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

  Kofi Annan

  Community, Society, Age

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• We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

  Paul Wellstone

  People, Community, Focus

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• Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your involvement to our dying breaths, and I'll kill anyone who doesn't." Bann began to laugh into Raffin's shoulder. Smiling, Raffin said sideways to him, "Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to say that and mean it?

  Kristin Cashore

  Mean, Laughing, Dying

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.106, Penguin

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• Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity.

  Victor Serge

  Lying, Struggle, Men

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.374, University of Iowa Press

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• Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

  Diane Arbus

  Love, Witty, Understanding

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• So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Important, Stranger

  "The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje " by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

  Danny Glover

  Believe, Vain

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• I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

  Jose Saramago

  Book, Writing, Who I Am

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

  Steve Buscemi

  Responsibility, Directors, Alex

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• I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

  Rashida Jones

  Political, Chocolate, Together

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