Quotes About Engagement

For many Charismatics, Scripture is not simply a book to be read and studied, but it is an invitation into a lifestyle of supernatural engagement. Truly, such followers of Jesus desire to be doers of the Word, not hearers only. This should be celebrated rather than rejected.

Ideally, the problem-solving group meets around a single table, thereby providing as much nonverbal information as possible. Being physically close to other human beings provides an immeasurable advantage as you interact and communicate.

Never shrink from making a difference.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone else feel happy to be here." p118

They were thinking: "I don't know who this guy is, but I'm definitely coming to class tomorrow to check out his next stunt." I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.

Meet people properly: It all starts with the introduction

I've also collected techniques for keeping unnecessary calls shorter. If I'm sitting while on the phone, I never put my feet up. In fact, it's better to stand when you're on the phone. You're more apt to speed things along. I also like to have something in view on my desk that I want to do, so I have the urge to wrap things up with the caller.

Instead of "I think we should do A, not B," try "What if we did A, instead of B?" That allows people to offer comments rather than defend one choice.

We need to both appreciate and engage leaders and thinkers who are involved in decolonial work, but it is not enough to let them shoulder the burden on their own. Those who occupy a place in centers of power must join in the anticolonial task of examining institutional practices, challenging hurtful and oppressive structures, and interrogating narratives of exclusion and superiority.

Guerrilla war is a total war. This is the path on which the Situationist International is set: calculated harassment on every front—cultural, political, economic, and social. The battlefield is everyday life, which guarantees the unity of the struggle.

Le travail est partout où l'on ne fait rien de sa vie.

That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

Boredom is the opposite of learning.

Games that fail to exercise the brain become boring.

In other words, games serve as very fundamental and powerful learning tools.

If your goal is to keep things fun (read as "keep the player learning"), boredom is always the signal to let you know you have failed.

The definition of a good game is therefore "one that teaches everything it has to offer before the player stops playing.

That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.* Games teach you how aspects of reality work, how to understand yourself, how to understand the actions of others, and how to imagine.

All of these things make us feel good when we're successful at them, but lumping them all together as "fun" just renders the word meaningless.

for years the youths of america keep telling me this:-I'm bored! when I ask them why, they have no answer. my concern goes deeper-I ask, how can your life be so empty in a land of plenty? that's when I begin to share my reggae education with them. its good to see them develop a sense of purpose after that discourse.

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.