Quotes About Engagement

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.

Guardare, ascoltare, leggere, il lavoro non finisce mai.

No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more often than not they would give you a chance to press further, to crack the conversation open and scoop out what you needed to know.

Lexie was used to people wanting her opinion, to the point where she often assumed they did and just hadn't quite said so.

Over the past two weeks she's worked her way through it [the book], a little each night, savoring the words like a cherry Life Saver tucked inside her cheek.

Getting information out of interviewees, she had learned over the years, was sometimes like walking a large, reluctant cow: you had to turn the cow onto the right path while letting the cow believe it was doing the steering.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

D?? dünyayla münasebetlerim bir fahi?eninkine benziyordu. Hissetmeden veriyordum kendimi. Ya?amadan veriyordum.

BaÅŸkalar?yla -hatta kar??na ç?kan tek insanla- sanki her ÅŸey o an baÅŸlayacak ve biraz sonra bitecekmiÅŸ gibi yaÅŸamal?s?n.

Bir ÅŸeyden, onu görmezlikten gelerek deÄŸil, ancak onu yaÅŸayarak kurtulabiliriz.

You don't have to rush out to become the mayor of your city or the president of the United States in order to help others, but you can begin with your relatives and friends and the people around you. In fact, you can start with yourself. The important point is to realize that you are never off duty.

We must try to think beyond our homes, beyond the fire burning in the fireplace, beyond sending our children to school or getting to work in the morning. We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world.

If you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to dive into the domain of the business you're in

The easiest way to never get anything done is to never commit to anything.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors' spit lands on your face.

Books are cold," declared Arthur Merwyn. They "allow no questions, offer no explanations... They talk to us behind a screen. Their tone is lifeless and monotonous. They charm not our attention by mute significances of gesture and look.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine