Quotes About Engagement

Somebody once said that good conversation should be like a tennis match, with each player gracefully sending the ball back across the net; instead, most conversation is like a golf game, with each player stroking only his own ball, and waiting impatiently for the other to finish.

The only way to avoid trouble is to avoid living.

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

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. It drags it out from where it would hide.

He did not confuse compassion with passivity.

Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.

If the horse 'falls' in or out on one shoulder, take the appropriate rein forward so he has nothing to lean on. This effectively encourages more engagement behind

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

Jedes Gedicht, das dich berührt, ist wie ein Ruf, der eine Reaktion erfordert, und man möchte mit seiner eigenen Geschichte antworten.

End Violence Against Women International, the police training organization, has suggested that the most important factor in talking with victims is the engagement of the investigators. "What is absolutely clear is that an officer's competence and compassion are far more important than gender in determining their effectiveness at interviewing sexual assault victims," the organization emphasizes.

By nature, looking is a disruptive task.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

If you stick your head in the sand and ignore things that you have the power to change, you can't blame anyone when they don't turn out right!

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.

The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they became his wounds.

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

But I think we should speak about all the things that are happening around us. We are not evoking evil irresponsibly or in vain, for we have now become a part of it...

Beware the hobby that eats.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Blake encourages us to fully engage our imagination in questioning of reality.

A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.

Ici et maintenant, les autres ne sont pas moi, je ne suis pas les autres. Si je ne pratique pas, je ne peux pas comprendre. Si quelqu'un d'autre fait, je ne peux pas être dans ce qu'il fait.