Quotes About Engagement

Getting bored is not allowed.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas, And yet he semed bisier that he was.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

I drink to make other people interesting.

England is a nation of voyeurs.