Quotes About Engagement

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

Work? It's just serious play.

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.