Involvement Quotes - Page 8

• Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

  Alan Cumming

  Real, Struggle, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it's not a particularly good book. You're in it, and you're committed to it.

  James Salter

  Powerful, Book, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whole pop or classical canon, were just as important as algebra or biology. Music is such a visceral and tactile experience for a kid, and to just replace that with video games or something that doesn't have the same sort of physical impact would definitely be a poor choice, and have a negative impact.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Song, School, Kids

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

  Bruce Lee

  Energy, Needs, Devotion

  "The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee". Book by John R. Little, p. 126, 1996.

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• To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Letting Go, Self, May

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• One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

  Graham Nash

  Past, People, Long

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).

  Merold Westphal

  Sports, Art, Sex

  "Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society". Book by Merold Westphal, 1987.

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• Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.

  David Harsanyi

  War, Victory, Ferguson

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• Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

  Mary Jane Patterson

  Rights, Movement, Apartheid

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• Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

  Gerry Adams

  Struggle, Government, People

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• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

  James Lovelock

  Science, Data, Games

  James Lovelock (1987). “Gaia: a new look at life on earth”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in government, then the government itself must allow the minority to be heard.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Government, Practice, Democracy

  Interview with Rami Eljundi, World Internet News, April 26, 2006.

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• What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?

  David Platt

  What If, Purpose, Passionate

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• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

  Barry Eisler

  Rain, Fall, Creative

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• I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

  Suge Knight

  Heard, Knows

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• The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely open to the occurrence of the unexpected, but to deep involvement in the unexpected, indeed, open to the possibility of having one’s life changed forever by a chance encounter.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Life Changing, Forever, Mind

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Two respondents described dreams which they had related to the procedure. Both described dreams of vomiting fetuses along with a sense of horror ... In general it appears that the more direct the physical and visual involvement the more stress experienced.

  Warren Hern

  Dream, Stress, Two

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• I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

  Marshall Fritz

  Government, Favors, Government Involvement

  "Marshall Fritz, R.I.P." by Lisa Snell, www.texasmonthly.com. November 7, 2008.

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• My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

  John R. Leopold

  Safety, Focus, Priorities

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• A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

  David Whyte

  Real, Passion, Soul

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• Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moving, Feet, Ease

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.

  John Carroll

  Christian, Two, Return

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• I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Writing, Years

  "Nuff Said - An Interview With Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, Self, People

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