Quotes About Engagement

Draw yourself up to your full height and look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as confidently as if every one of them owed you money. Imagine that they do. Imagine that they have assembled there to bet you for an extension of credit. The psychological effect on you will be beneficial.

How he handles names plays a leading role in this process.

Para ser interesante, hay que interesarse.

So much of our time online is spent arguing or feeding arguments.

Si no oía claramente el nombre, decía: "Lo siento. No oí bien". Después, si el nombre era poco común, preguntaba cómo se escribía.

Aliéntelo a hablar de sí mismo y de sus experiencias.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind; PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

This is achieved more naturally when the doctor puts himself on the same level of his patients

His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-one words that he read in the spring of 1871—twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I had to help them solve their problems. I had to make each session so inspiring that they wanted to continue coming.

far easier to give a talk that skims over the surface than to dig down for facts. But when you take the easy way you make little or no impression on the audience. After you have narrowed your subject, then the next step is to ask yourself questions that will deepen your understanding and prepare you to talk with authority on the topic you have chosen:

Siempre que Roosevelt esperaba a un visitante se quedaba hasta muy tarde, la noche anterior a su llegada, instruyéndose en el tema sobre el cual sabía que se interesaba particularmente el huésped esperado.

It becomes easier for people to relate to us.

you soften the approach and avoid raising his defenses immediately.

In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

Is listening a matter of waiting for the other person to stop so that you can start talking, or is it a skill that you genuinely want to develop? It's amazing how rare good listeners are, and by becoming one of those rare people, you can take a big step toward making yourself truly unforgettable.

We do have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse we only hurt ourselves.

Does Jesus only enable me to "make the cut" when I die? Or to know what to protest, or how to vote or agitate and organize? It is good to know that when I die all will be well, but is there any good news for life? If I had to choose, I would rather have a car that runs than good insurance on one that doesn't. Can I not have both?

We want to ask questions and not just make assertions.

Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.

Abstinence, then, makes way for engagement. If the places in our blood cells designed to carry oxygen are occupied by carbon monoxide, we die for lack of oxygen. If the places in our souls that are to be indwelt by God and his service are occupied by food, sex, and society, we die or languish for lack of God and right relation to his creatures. A proper abstinence actually breaks the hold of improper engagements so that the soul can be properly engaged in and by God.

We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.