Quotes About Engagement

Do you intend to come over here and mount your horse, or are you wanting to stare at my backside for the rest of the day? (Ewan)

Serenity couldn't speak. His smile grew wider.) Take your time. Women do that a lot around me. (Stanley)

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand

ASEAN's role in providing a neutral geopolitical platform for great-power engagement is particularly valuable in the current context of major great-power shifts. The reason only ASEAN can do this is that it is the only party trusted by all the powers in the region.

The reason ASEAN has emerged as the indispensable platform for great-power engagement in the Asia-Pacific region is that it is too weak to be a threat to anyone. So all the great powers instinctively trust it.

one weakness of ASEAN is that the 600 million people who live in Southeast Asia do not feel a sense of ownership of ASEAN.

When China built walls and cut off communication with the rest of the world, it fell behind. When China opened up to the world, it thrived. To guarantee its continued long-term success, China should completely abandon its two-thousand-year-old Middle Kingdom mentality and decide to become the most open society in terms of economic engagement with the rest of the world.

The common cause of the massive blindness of the Chinese officials in the nineteenth century was a huge Chinese philosophical assumption that China was a great self-sufficient Middle Kingdom that did not need to engage the world. As the Chinese emperor Qianlong famously told Lord Macartney, China had everything it needed. It didn't need the rest of the world. That painful century of humiliation finally led to China opening up.

For any leader to cling on his or her throne for long, working with women and youths is inevitable

when two people are talking, the mere presence of a phone on the table between them or in their peripheral vision changes both what they talk about and their degree of connectedness.65

Turkle refers to studies showing that, when two people are talking, the mere presence of a phone on the table between them or in their peripheral vision changes both what they talk about and their degree of connectedness.

Now, faced with a combination of increased complexity and hyper-specialization, we are at a point where the desire for purposeful engagement is becoming a major issue.

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom

Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing

A weapon was useful only if you had it in your hands.

Now is a powerful time in this country for young people and others to be asking the question, What are we for? Do we exist for some reason other than competing with China or finding the best possible technological advances?

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions.

It's not about healing the world by making a huge difference. It's about healing the world that touches you, that's around you.

You should probably marry me." He smiled.

He didn't look away. No one looked at a person that way anymore. They checked their phones, or scanned the horizon, or glanced around.