Quotes About Engagement

Her questions came with a kind of eagerness. The thought flashed across his mind that she must be very bored.

How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.

We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we write, we write for each other. We have absolutely no connection with the people.The people don't know we exist.

Only a fool would sit on the sidelines hoping for something worthy of mention to happen to them

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Readers are made by readers.

et surtout mon corps aussi bien que mon âme, gardez-vous de vous croiser les bras en l'attitude stérile du spectateur, car la vie n'est pas un spectacle, car une mer de douleurs n'est pas un proscenium, car un homme qui crie n'est pas un ours qui danse.

Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.

Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.

And above all, my body as well as my soul, beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man screaming is not a dancing bear….

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

Anyone with two eyes and a pair of binoculars could see that you stopped going inside soon after you moved to town.)

You have the mark of a genius. You're highly intelligent. Also lazy. You don't make any effort to do work that doesn't appeal to you. But once something engages your interest, you apply yourself wholeheartedly to solving that problem. The trouble is that you rarely find an objective that seems worthy of your attention. In this postwar mess of a country, I would guess that you're having a hard time finding a practical application for your genius

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

Remember to vote early -- and often.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Take it from me–elections matter.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Our miniscule action may seem equivalent to inaction. But the courage to held steady in this equivalence enables us to the be the political subject of this new era