Quotes About Engagement

I just want to see how long they will keep entertaining me…these six stars.

You're going to be my sister-in-law. We should deepen our relationship whenever we can!

Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children an opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.

When people ask me something, I now rarely answer directly.

We'd like to talk to you, sir, if you don't mind," said the woman of the trio. "You see, we're a sort of delegation.

He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world.

Slowly, Adams put away the mento-cap, reached out an almost reluctant hand and snapped up a tumbler. Alice answered. "Send me in the Asher Sutton file.

Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now, we've got being alive now and we have to be awake and alive in the moment and not asleep in our lives. And they would find the idea of sleeping through your life, of being bored - they would think that was very stupid - why would you be bored when there's so much to do and so much to see and so much to be?

Anything interesting?" Joe asked.

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

It is important to graps that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

I had learned a basic lesson: that the secret of avoiding boredom is to have a strong sense of purpose.

In for a penny, in for a pound - by Max Pesaro

I'm happy to scrap with you, Macey darling, but we might do a little too much damage in this small space.

I was one of them on the dance floor and they were one of me. I jostled, was jostled in turn, collision as communication: I am here, we're here together. The bass bounced my shirt on my chest.

I]t is a matter of indifference what a person's occupation is, or at what job he works. The crucial thing is how he works, whether he in fact fills the place in which he happens to have landed. The radius of his activity is not important; important alone is whether he fills the circle of his tasks.

The choices humans make should be active rather than passive.

The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words. But

it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

You don't retire from a job (which may have become stale) but to an activity that is meaningful to you.

Human engagement for the storage of information in opposition to death cannot be measured with the same scales used by the natural scientist. Carbon-dating tests measure the natural time according to the information loss of specific radioactive atoms. However, the artificial time of human freedom ("historical time") cannot be measured by simply turning carbon-dating formulas around, so that they now measure the accumulation of information.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

So intense was Kennedy's concentration that she hadn't

Voters didn't care about public policy or economics or even their own well-being. What they wanted was to connect with their leadership on a gut level. To feel a part of something. To believe that they had power.