Quotes About Engagement

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

He tried to sniff with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly. Every advance on his part was accompanied by a corresponding retreat on her part. Step by step she was luring him away from the security of his human companionship

La obligación real del hombre es vivir, no existir

When you report to people every week about the condition of the company, you establish credibility. When you get them to write the information down, you teach. Education comes by repetition.

1. You Get What You Give.

The utmost accolade a writer can receive is that the reader is incognizant of his presence. The writer must put no obstacles in the reader's way. Therefore I try avoid words that he must puzzle over, or that he cannot gloss from context; and when I make up names, I shun the use of diacritical marks that he must sound out, thus halting the flow; and in general, I try to keep the sentences metrically pleasing, so that they do not obtrude upon the reader's mind.

The mark of good writing, in my opinion, is that the reader is not aware that the story has been written; as he reads, the ideas and images flow into his mind as if he were living them.

Your people give their days (and sometimes their nights) to you. They give their hands, brains, and hearts. Sure, the company pays them. It fills their wallets. But as a leader, you need to fill their souls. You can do that by getting in their skin, by giving the work meaning, by clearing obstacles, and by demonstrating the generosity gene. And you can do it, perhaps most powerfully, by creating an environment that's exciting and enjoyable.

RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.

Tell them to grab on to the career that engages their brain and heart and soul and gives them meaning. Tell them that eventually, the money will come, and if it doesn't, in time, they will find themselves rich with something money can't buy. And that, obviously, would be happiness.

The boss would be present at the beginning of each session, laying out the rationale for the Work-Out. He or she would also commit to two things: to give an on-the-spot yes or no to 75 percent of the recommendations that came out of the session, and to resolve the remaining 25 percent within thirty days. The boss would then disappear until the end of the session, so as not to stifle open discussion, returning only at the end to make good on his or her promise.*

Los líderes existen, en gran medida, para dar sentido —propósito— a sus equipos; para, de manera incansable, apasionadamente, explicar: «Vamos hacia allí. Por tal y tal motivo. Así es como vamos a llegar. Así es como encajas tú. Y esto es lo que vas a ganar con todo esto».

But we are in any case mistaken if we think of our picture of the world as a passive record. The picture is made by, it is made of, our activity, all the way from the logic of the brain to the use of the plow and the wheel.

slipped past them to return to the palace to engage in pointless speculation with Zariya.

To prayerfully remember is to cooperate with God in the "re-membering" of ourselves. It is to actively engage with the Spirit in uniting those fragmented areas of ourselves that have been split off and alienated through sin.

to try to get it all done before you came.' 'Can't I help? I'm absolutely

five minutes. Then open your eyes—and your heart—and consider what needs to be done.

when she was the silent observer as he listened to a story, gently prodding with a question, a comment, a sigh, or a smile, "The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.

Least I feel as if I'm doing something. Making shells, like. Least I'm not just sitting on my bum while them boys get shot to bits over there.

La grandeur du peuple juif, c'est justement d'apporter aux autres, même si les autres ne veulent pas entendre - c'est tikkun olam même pour ceux qui ne veulent pas entendre. [youtube, watch?v=jlVMft1jtiE]

Propaganda ceases where simple dialogue begins.

we need to live fully in the moment and to develop attentive focus on whatever task is at hand.

When you are a citizen, the earth feels different.