Quotes About Self Involvement

#1. I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

Lena Dunham

#2. The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.

James M. Fallows

#3. Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own map for keeps. The truth is that the hours before a suicide are usually an interval of enormous conceit and self-involvement.

David Foster Wallace

#4. I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

David Chase

#5. I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

David Mamet

#6. What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?

Harlan Coben

#7. I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

Michael Keaton

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.

Charles Eames

#11. Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

Fawn M. Brodie

#12. A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

Mia Bloom

#13. Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#14. Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Jonathan Sacks

#15. When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.

Peter Hans Kolvenbach

#16. High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Ben Bernanke

#17. The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

Peter Garrett

#18. The only way to describe my involvement in 'Planes' is that it's an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can't imagine anything getting better than that!

Roger Craig Smith

#19. 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

#20. You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.

Adrian Pasdar

#21. In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

Kofi Annan

#22. The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#23. Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more ... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

Thierry Henry

#24. I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

Danny Glover

#25. A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

Mark Haddon

#26. It's really seeing student involvement ... as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Adam Fletcher

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

Ronald Reagan

#28. That said, nothing builds reader involvement more surely than a character whose moral struggle pervades the tale. When readers hope, beg, and plead with you to let a character turn toward the light, you have readers where you want them. A character who is good is good; a character

Donald Maass

#29. You must build on the resources represented by our young professionals and by our nation's farmers. Without their involvement we cannot succeed. With their involvement we cannot fail.' While

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#30. Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

Augustus Napier

#31. Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

Amy Chua

#32. Neither parenting, Christian education, heritage, nor fine church involvement can alter anyone's essential sin nature. To lie, make self-centered choices, be destructive, or be deeply hurtful to oneself or others may be "out of character," but it is not outside of any human being's nature.

Rick Horne

#33. Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

Gavin Newsom

#34. I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it was certainly a factor. It affected him psychologically and emotionally.

Karina Longworth

#35. [Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved

Jonathan Franzen

#36. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

J.G. Ballard

#37. You decide your own level of involvement.

Chuck Palahniuk

#38. There is a lot of research to suggest that we feel better overall as we are progressing toward our goals; we have a sense of purposeful involvement, we give ourselves mental pats on the back for being so good and industrious, our self-esteem is enhanced, and our general life satisfaction is raised.

Richard O'Connor

#39. My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

Jackie Speier

#40. I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.

Lucas Papademos

#41. 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

#42. Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.

William Hartung

#43. Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Amy Vanderbilt

#44. I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

Suge Knight

#45. These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.

J.G. Ballard

#46. As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and connected, it has progressively alienated itself from needful involvement in its subconscious life.

Marshall McLuhan

#47. I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

David Dinkins

#48. I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or may not be permanently involved.

Tyler Christopher

#49. 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

#50. A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total.

Robert Traver

#51. The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#52. In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.

Leonard Jacobson

#53. I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#54. Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

Hazel Hawke

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

Wole Soyinka

#56. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

John Ruskin

#57. 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

#58. I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

Rick Santorum

#59. I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

Marshall Fritz

#60. Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

Abdul Kalam

#61. But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.

Romare Bearden

#62. What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Elinor Ostrom

#63. The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors ... Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

Marshall McLuhan

#64. 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

#65. No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Jimmy Connors

#66. The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

Bill O'Reilly

#67. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

George Soros

#68. I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Frederick W. Smith