Quotes About Engagement

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value of face time: never write a memo if you can make a phone call, never make a phone call if you can meet in person.

I've inherited a core belief, to wit: don't rely on some other sod for your emotional sustenance. Find something absorbing to do—something so absorbing that you don't have time to dwell on the woe-is-me stuff.

Belangstelling is wel een van de beste eigenschappen van de mens, deze wonderlijke aardbewoner.

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Si ha de haber paz, la paz tendrá que ser activa, los motivos de la lucha han de mantenerse vivos para darle empleo a la ambición del hombre, a su ingenio, a su espíritu inestable.

Don't be mental assenters—those who agree that the Bible is true but never act on it.

Use simple words, words that _create pictures_ and _action_ and that _generate feeling._

The argument must begin from a position that generates acceptance or approval.

Oh, yes," cried Benny. "I liked her a lot. But that's different. I think Joe is going to marry her.

looked up. Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead. But he was not looking at anything. "What's the matter, Ben?" asked Mr. Alden.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

I always have something going on.

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

What we put into every moment is all we have.