Over Involvement Quotes

#1. The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

Katharine Graham

#2. Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets ... one becomes involved and it is a long trek back to becoming uninvolved.

Zadie Smith

#3. Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Paul Gibbons

#4. It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

Lauren Oliver

#5. The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#6. Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.

Howard Coble

#7. Pain must be a necessary ingredient of emotional involvement, either that or else I never manage to get it right.

Stephen Williams

#8. There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

Anne Kearney

#9. In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over.

Steven Hatfill

#10. Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating on a project. This level can change over the course of the project's life cycle. Their involvement may

Project Management Institute

#11. Editing a film is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

Richard Gere

#12. We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

Ronald Reagan

#13. If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

Lucas Samaras

#14. It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

David Sanborn

#15. Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

Madeleine L'Engle

#16. 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

#17. A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not.

Hazel Hawke

#18. An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

Wole Soyinka

#19. Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Thomas Perez

#20. If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

David Benioff