Quotes about involvement
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“Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches, and getting involved in it only leads to misery and dissatisfaction.”

Charles Stross Saturn's Children

Source: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 9, “Coin-Operated Boy” (p. 157)

“Tennis is only a sport, and we don’t intend to get involved in politics.”

Peng Shuai (1986) Chinese female tennis player (1986-)

Source: "Cross-strait tennis partners 'forced' to talk politics" in South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1278632/cross-strait-tennis-partners-forced-talk-politics (9 July 2013)

Sport

“Thinking is easier than working. And the best kind of thinking is the kind where you don't have to write anything down, i.e., "meeting thinking." When you think up an idea during a meeting, all you have to do is blurt it out. You won't have to involve any parts of your body except your mouth and maybe your brain stem.”

Scott Adams book The Joy of Work

Source: Books, The Joy of Work (1998)

Idea, Thinking, Parting

“Lately, I've become quite involved in psychic vibrations. I vibrate whenever I get the chance.”

Brother Theodore (1906–2001) German-American monologuist and comedian

Chance

“We are convinced that success for the transformation of food systems requires involvement, coordination and interconnectivity among different state and non-state stakeholders at domestic and international level.”

Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (1954) Prime Minister of Mozambique (2015-present)

Source: Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (2021) cited in: " Mozambique Seeks to Build Resilient Food Security https://allafrica.com/stories/202107020735.html" in All Africa, 2 July 2021.

Food, Success

“[M]uch of what our Supreme Court does involves filling in the "great silences of the Constitution"...”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Silence

“Judicial neutrality necessarily involves taking sides. ...[J]udicial restraint is but another form of judicial activism.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

American Constitutional Law (1978), Preface to the First Edition

“There's a right of self-defense here that's involved: We know the government has to respond, so we will not be subjected to these types of attacks in the future. But the response should be measured, restrained as much as possible, to protect innocent civilians. It should not just be military. We should pursue diplomatic ways, legal ways, any other ways we can address that.”

Joseph Fiorenza (1931–2022) US Roman Catholic archbishop

Source: Bishops Write Bush to Back U.S. Efforts https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/us/a-nation-challenged-support-from-churches-bishops-write-bush-to-back-us-efforts.html (21 September 2001)

Way, Future

“Nature shouldn’t be able to do this, Sunday thought. It shouldn’t be able to produce something that resembled the work of directed intelligence, something artful, when the only factors involved were unthinking physics and obscene, spendthrift quantities of time. Time to lay down the sediments, in deluge after deluge, entire epochs in the impossibly distant past when Mars had been both warm and wet, a world deluded into thinking it had a future. Time for cosmic happenstance to hurl a fist from the sky, punching down through these carefully superimposed layers, drilling through these carefully superimposed layers, drilling the geological chapters like a bullet through a book. And then yesterday more time—countless millions of years—for wind and dust to work their callous handiwork, scouring and abrading, wearing the exposed layers back at subtly different rates depending on hardness and chemistry, util these deliberate-looking right-angled steps and contours began to assume grand and imperial solidity, rising from the depths like the stairways of the gods.
Awe-inspiring, yesterday. Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What was she, ultimately, but the end product of physics and matter? And what was her art but the product of physics and matter working on itself?”

Alastair Reynolds book Blue Remembered Earth

Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 17 (pp. 292-293)

God, Books, World, Art

“May you remember, that the liberty which was acquired for you by your ancestors will be required of you by your descendants: then will you agree to a temperate and timely reform, reconcile the different classes of society, and prevent a convulsion which may involve all in one common ruin.”

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions

1820s
Source: Speech to the House of Commons on Parliamentary reform, 25 April 1822

Time

“Flow: a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934) Hungarian American psychologist

The Psychology of optimal experience, Harper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224927532_Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_ExperienceFlow (1990)

People

“We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power.”

Thomas Sankara (1949–1987) President of Upper Volta

From a speech to the United Nations on 4 October 1984 https://www.marxists.org/archive/sankara/1984/october/04.htm

People, Training

“+ NO RISK NO REWARD " Sometimes giving our best and thinking big involve risk. " -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Thinking

“WITH THE EMBERS STILL BURNING:
The scientific community has done a pronounced amount of hand-wringing about its involvement in the atomic bomb’s creation, and a disproportionately absent amount of the soul-searching with respects to its creation of the science of eugenics. The 450,000 deaths due to the bomb are relatively small in the shadow of the many millions dead as a result of National Socialism’s eugenic campaign. The casualties of The Holocaust are the casualties of the science of eugenics, which so many scientists had actively campaigned for leading up to World War II. Yet, the scientific community has confronted its complicity with collective silence and sometimes outright censorship.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848

Death, War, World, Soul

“In life, anyone who suffers suffering, in which the psychic state is involved, needs help and respect: be kind, delicate and moderate.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nella vita, chiunque subisca sofferenze, in cui venga coinvolto lo stato psichico, ha bisogno di aiuto e rispetto: siate gentili, delicati e moderati.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Suffering, Help

“A1 + EN FALK " LIFE LESSONSFROM ENGR. ABAH SULE " 1.1 Think he knows the best …, And stop controlling what is not yours to control. GW 2. Don't pray for bigger pray for better!!.. And have a sense of peace to go along with the plans and ideas you believe he has given you!!!. 3. The real test of faith comes when [ nothing you have tried has work the lord speak a word to you that seen to make no sense but I assure you doubt your doubts but never doubt God for one word from him can change everything. 4. For as long as you have your greatest gift of all [ life ] then you should give your own gift to the maker because you haven't loose anything for the people you need are still around. 5. If you abide you will automatically abound cause he will involve you in one thing to teach you another. 6. To think ahead first focus on the present cause the level of our risk determines how far we can go in life sometimes many people in life want you to fail not because you're ahead of them but because you're drawn closer to your maker. www. theabahsulereadingclub. org.”

Engr.Abah Sule

Life, God, People, Peace

“Relationships involve the inevitability of rupture. The degree of security and joy felt within a relationship is about our capacity to create repair.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Joy

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Quotes about involvement
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