Quotes About Engagement

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

It was getting to be the best conversation she ever had. She had always thought the only way to have conversations like that was in your head. Then

It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

Any occupation, any job has excitement in it if you have some excitement in you.

Get interested in something! Absolutely enthralled in something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

The man who is out doing something isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no wonder you're tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You don't have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

He could talk through twenty cigarettes on any topic that you brought up. And he never sat up when he could lie down; and never stood when he could sit.

En lugar de interrogarnos a nosotros mismos,¿no sería mejor crear, obrar sobre una realidad que no se entrega al que la contempla, sino al que es capaz de sumergirse en ella?

La lectura es libertad y el lector, al leer, reinventa aquello mismo que lee; participa así en la creación universal.

Imparai che la politica non è solo azione ma anche partecipazione. Forse, mi dissi, non si tratta di cambiare gli uomini quanto di accompagnarli, di essere uno di loro

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

It wasn't an alternative to experience, or an escape from it. Not if you did it right. Reading was the only way we could transcend our own experience and deeply engage in that of another's.

The essential question is not, How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?

One of the greatest gifts you can give is your undivided attention.

If you are not in control of the development of your life, or aware that your life needs developing, and you are just waking up every morning, going to a job, going through the motions, getting your paycheck, then really it's sort of like being the walking dead.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.