Quotes About Engagement

Do you get to use your greatest strength every day at work?

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.

intricate motives, and complicated plots intimately. You live a book for weeks at a time, carrying it around in your bag, thinking about its characters like friends, worrying about their worries as your own. Not so short stories because as soon as you get to know the characters and voices and plots and complications, they're over. Resolved or unresolved, clear or still completely obfuscated, either way, there's nothing more . . . unless you're

Might I point out that nobody connected with my agility class has ever been murdered?

We can't plan life.All we can do is be available for it.

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

he was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something

Do not fight what you can see in front of you only, assume there is a battle to fight every where you face, so when you see the battle you won't be suprise

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

qué general había enviado jamás por delante a una banda de música con órdenes de notificar al enemigo que cierto día iba a comenzar el ataque».

I shall prepare a face to meet the faces that I meet.

Children don't say, "I had a hard day at school today; can I talk to you about it?" They say, "Will you play with me?

If they don't think we will play, they may not even ask. They just go about their business, and we go about ours, and we all miss chance after chance to reconnect.

Tuning in does not mean questioning our children about every little detail of their lives. Instead, tell an interesting story from your day; they might respond with a story of their own.

Others of us may be unable to put aside our competitiveness or our need to be in control. We get bored, cranky, and frustrated; we're sore losers; we worry about teaching how to throw the ball correctly when our child just wants to play catch.

Getting on the floor also means joining in with play that we would rather ignore or eliminate.

In the words of John Updike, who often writes about the alienation of husbands and fathers, "If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money." Obviously Updike was making an understatement; fathering takes more than just being on speaking terms with our children.

The amount of communal participation in prayer is in inverse ratio to the combined vertical and horizontal distance between the leader of the prayers and the first occupied row of seats.

So that's what it's all about! You put your whole self in, you take your whole self out; you put your whole self in and you shake it all about. The idea is that by doing whatever you're doing with all of you, you can then take all of you out. The trick is how to do both.

A defesa de idéias, a argumentação e a crítica melhoram a democracia.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.