Get Involved Quotes - Page 2

• I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Dying, Rooms

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food­-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.

  Bob Davids

  Thinking, Skills, Oil

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• I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

  Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

  People, Leader, Inspire

  "Q & A: 'Joe the Plumber'". Interview by Sarah Pulliam, Christianity Today, May 2009.

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• If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

  Andrew Shue

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Hate, People

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Jul 19, 2013

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• The most successful social media experiments-whether spearheaded by one person, a group of individuals, a company, or an institution-invite you in, treat you as a friend, and make you feel at home. Look around, they say, and tell us how we can make things better; get to know us. Get involved and tell us what you think.

  Melinda Blau

  Home, Successful, Thinking

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• If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

  William Bennett

  Education, Children, School

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• Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

  Anthony Weiner

  Military, Fighting, Israel

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. January 27, 2011.

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• In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

  Pink

  Depression, Way, Beats

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• I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving, Use, Care

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.468, Random House

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• Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

  Jello Biafra

  Lying, Believe, Drunk

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.popmatters.com. January 24, 2001.

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• My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

  Gary Bettman

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Kids

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• What I want you to do is just take it as it is. Don't think too much. If you get involved with thinking about it, the whole thing gets lost or loses its purity. Don't think during practice - DO! The more you think, the further from the truth of budo you get: Budo is NOT an academic subject!

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Thinking, Practice, Want

  Masaaki Hatsumi (1988). “The Grandmaster's Book of Ninja Training”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Once Upon A Time, Machines

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

  Ron Brown

  Sports, Doors, Ladders

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• I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

  Jenna Bush

  Kids, Thinking, World

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• You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Hard Work, May

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• I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

  Debbie Gibson

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Lyricist Tim Rice Enjoys Career Revival; David Crosby Writes Book on Music and Charity; Wise Guys of 'Falcone' Come to CBS". "Showbiz Today" with Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. April 3, 2000.

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• To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

  Phil Collins

  Albums, Records, Want

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• The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank.

  Albert Hadley

  Art, Wall, Clients

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• I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

  Diane Sawyer

  Ends, Middle, Involved

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• After gaining the incredible platform from 'Glee,' it wasn't so much of a decision to get involved as it was an opportunity to take part. I'll be honest, I'm not so much into the idea of one cause being more important than another; however, I felt that the Trevor Project was a perfect fit for my efforts. It stands for a lot of things that I believe in, as well as falls in line with much of what 'Glee' stands for.

  Darren Criss

  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

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• When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Religious, Leader, Agendas

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• I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.

  David Byrne

  Song, Fool, Rhythm

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• Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.

  Don Aitkin

  Media, Data, People

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