Quotes About Engagement

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.

People will support that which they help to create.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Damian Lewis is a consummate professional. He is kind. He's compassionate. He's able to engage in real conversation when we're not rolling, and then, the minute we're rolling, he's totally present and reacting truthfully in the moment and listening.

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

I have never moved away from my mainstay - trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

I'm trying to make the world a more open place.

I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'

I'm very active with my kids, so even if I don't go to the gym, I'm lifting them in and out of the tub and out of their high chairs.