Quotes About Engagement

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a little money—a much more effective, because pleasurable, and a much cheaper method than the present one of requiring the adult world to be learned in the abstract in school. One's