Minimal Involvement Quotes

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

If I've ever followed Conte, then it's been to get a coffee at most.

I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.