Quotes About Engagement

student wrote: If one is trying to do something really well, one becomes, first of all, interested in it, and later absorbed in it,which means that one forgets oneself in concentrating on what one is doing. But when one forgets oneself, oneself ceases to exist, since oneself is the only thing which causes oneself to exist. —Christmas Humphreys, Concentration and Meditation For

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

Relatable is the secret of success.

Social man is not a being secure in the given nexus of familial, ritual, and political ties that hold his life together but rather a being continually engaged in creating that nexus.

Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it—which comes to the same thing—is by writing in it.

Throughout his career as a soldier, lawyer, and public servant, Harrison had felt a keen sense of personal responsibility for whatever work he engaged to do. He treated his presidential duties no differently. Although he could delegate work, he could not relinquish the conviction that the country would hold him ultimately accountable for his administration's actions. He was, therefore, a hands-on president.

Two percent who care deeply about something are a more potent political force than the 98 percent who feel the opposite but aren't motivated enough to do anything about it.

By putting ourselves below everyone, we're building in a self-defense mechanism. Protecting against real engagement. By imagining that no one wants us, that all others are so different from us, we're privileging our own point of view.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

The building is a special place because of its architecture, ... But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

You're concerned with the people who showed up, not the ones who didn't. So always give them a show, and never look at the empty seats!

If you write a book and nobody reads it, does the book exist? Stories in books, characters and things, you know, like places and monsters or whatever the writer has made up and written down, they only really come alive when we read them. Otherwise it's just a jumble of squiggles on bits of paper.

Where was the police? Where was anybody?

A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever.

Reinforcing the notion that a primary purpose of school is for students to develop conceptual understanding of complex material, the teacher conveys that it is not sufficient for students to be able to go through the motions, to follow a procedure without understanding why. No—they must develop conceptual understanding; it must build from one idea to another, and students should be able to explain to the teacher, or to another student, why something is the way it is.

One could not see them without feeling it was the first chapter of a novel.

Attention is no more than this - the power of giving your mind to what you are about

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman