Quotes About Engagement

First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.