Quotes About Engagement

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

las personas que fundamentalmente aman lo que hacen no piensan en ello como si fuera un trabajo en el sentido habitual de la palabra. Lo hacen porque quieren y porque al hacerlo están en su Elemento.

El principal papel de un director escolar no es mandar y controlar, sino estimular de forma creativa el ambiente.

According to one study, almost half of the adults in the United States have little enthusiasm for life and are not actively or productively engaged in the world. There are equally disturbing figures for other countries and regions of the world, from Europe to Asia.

Musicians love the sounds they make, natural writers love words, dancers love movement, mathematicians love numbers, entrepreneurs love making deals, great teachers love teaching. This is why people who fundamentally love what they do don't think of it as work in the ordinary sense of the word. They do it because they want to and because, when they do, they are in their Element.

El juego es absolutamente fundamental para el aprendizaje: es el fruto natural de la curiosidad y de la imaginación.

La energía mental no es una sustancia fija. Sube y baja según la pasión y el compromiso que pongamos en lo que estemos haciendo en ese momento. El elemento diferenciador clave se encuentra en nuestra actitud y en nuestra sensación de resonancia con respecto a una actividad.

An organization with a staff that's fully engaged is far more likely to succeed than one with a large portion of its workforce detached, cynical and uninspired.

expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and

that if we keep our focus too tight, we miss the rest of the world swirling around us.

The conventional academic curriculum is focused almost entirely on the world around us and pays little attention to the inner world. We see the results of that every day in boredom, disengagement, stress, bullying, anxiety, depression, and dropping out. These are human issues and they call for human responses.

When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don't know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn't really care.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Every question selects a field of battle.

The role of the professor now is part party host, part traffic cop, full-time enabler.

We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.

Long-bodied, long-worded Johnny cocked an ear. "A tintamarrous bombilation!" he remarked. "Sounds more like a fight to me," Monk muttered. Ham said, "That, short-and-hairy, is what he meant.

At its best drama delightfully informs.. This may be a paraphrase but I think it captures the essence of what he said; provided he did say it and I'm not imagining things.

A self who not only greets you but motions you over so that you may merge.

Buy books, then, that you have read with profit and pleasure and hope to read and reread. Buy books that you may underscore passages and write upon the margins, thus assuring yourself that the book is your own. Keep the books that mean the most to you close at hand, one or two, if possible, on a table at your bedside. Do not hide away your favorite books or keep them locked in enclosed shelves. Do not keep them under glass.

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.