Quotes About Engagement

What cannot be avoided, must be welcomed.

It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.

Autonomy in making decisions and the control it gives those that have it over their lives is essential, in his view, for a sense of well-being, social engagement, health

the lowest price nor the highest quality, but the depth and consistency of the human interactions between a company and its customers.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. (quoted in Life After Life)

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Read anthing, trash or trashier; and listen to thrash. Espceially 83-90 era. They will absorb you. You will be in dire need of beer. Now that's something you must be picky of.

He read with a similar relaxed, long-haul attentiveness. We

Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch him, not simply touch him but lift him and carry him away.

They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.

don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.

Don't anticipate outcome," the man said. "Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment.

The girl in 3.7 seemed engrossed in her phone. "What's she doing?" "Candy Crush Saga. Nondigital surveillance is weaponized boredom.

Identify yourself, please." Lucky Dragon ATMs all had this same voice, a weird, uptight, strangled little castrato voice, and he wondered why that was. But you could be sure they'd worked it out: probably it kept people from standing around, bullshitting with the machine. But Rydell knew

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.

Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

he followed up his Mayflower speech with one of his famous "fireside chats," urging the need for the Court plan and assuring his nationwide audience that he had no desire to be a dictator.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

our experience is what we attend to

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

Our environment encourages us not to be philosophers but partisans.

I have always held the opinion that one of the first duties of a good reader is to summon other readers to the enjoyment of any unknown author of rare quality whom he may discover in his explorations.