Quotes About Engagement

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. ... He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.

In this way, little by little , moment by moment, life can slip by without us being fully here for it. Always preoccupied with getting somewhere else, we are hardly ever where we actually are and attentive to what is actually unfolding in this moment.

Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.