Involvement Quotes · Page 3

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

— Kiran Desai

First and foremost, my involvement within the Olympic pursuit and Games were obviously surrounded by only putting the absolute best nutrients into…

— Apolo Ohno

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

— Steve Buscemi

Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.

— Marie Colvin

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

— M. Russell Ballard

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass…

— Michael Ondaatje

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

— John Calvin

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,…

— Jose Saramago

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of…

— Junot Diaz

I think the involvement of the state is the reason why I don't want to have a formalized wedding, and what I've…

— Laura Wasser

I am saddened by the release by a national media outlet of my opponent's involvement in pornography. I strongly condemn the release…

— Matt Shea

Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining…

— Alan Cumming

[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world,…

— Edward Said

My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies,…

— Don King

We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena.…

— George W. Bush

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV…

— Marshall McLuhan

Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes…

— Stanton Peele

I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was…

— Jimmy Carter

Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are…

— Terri E Apter

I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient…

— Anne Applebaum

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is…

— Dogen

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

— Richard Ernst

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of…

— Roger Mahony

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

— Martina Navratilova

I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or…

— Tyler Christopher

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

— George E. P. Box

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

— Barry Eisler

FDR, as best as I can tell, had no kind of involvement at all in our conversion to the paper currency.

— Bill Cassidy

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

— Luc Besson

'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through…

— Deb Caletti

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the…

— David Hackworth

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer