Quotes About Engagement

stand up straight. Don't lean or sit or cross your arms. Keep your hands off your hips and make eye contact with the guest at all times. A Walt Disney World Cast Member never points with a single finger—and he never uses a thumb.* Instead, use two fingers." Orville held out his index and middle fingers together. "Or, to be on the safe side, the whole hand in the style of a karate chop.

YOU GONNA STAND THERE WITH YOUR BUTT ON THE BACK OF YOUR BODY OR ARE YOU GONNA GET IN ON THIS, BEEF?

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

If people are engaged, eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists, it still responds. ~ President Obama

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Young people need to be loved, to put it as plainly as possible. They need to be engaged, challenged, mentored, and enjoyed. They, like every human being, need to be appropriately cared for, no matter how autonomous and self-sufficient they may think they are.

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

I like to be busy," she says. "And useful. I think those are pretty basic human desires—don't you?

The reading part of her feels private, between her and the characters in a book.

Well, you're not exactly effervescent now, are you?" Vivian says. "But I saw you outside earlier when Jack dropped you off, and your face was"—Vivian lifts her knobby hands, splaying her fingers—"all lit up. You were talking up a storm." "Were you spying on me?" "Of course! How else am I going to find out anything about you?

story. (And anyway, Lori doesn't ask "why" questions. She's only

On the evening of the third day, I can feel him looking at me. He has a funny expression on his face, like he's doing math in his head. Finally he says, "So what's that thing you got around your neck?" and it's clear what he's up to. "There's no value in it," I say. "Looks like silver," he says, peering

But what is hard to understand is why the math and science gap launched a massive movement on behalf of girls, and yet a much larger gap in reading, writing, and school engagement created no comparable effort for boys.

The world divides between those who can watch television knowing there's an isolated jigsaw fragment lying on the floor and those who can't.

When you are tired of saying it, people are starting to hear it" – Jeff Weiner,

Time spent talking in meetings is not a success metric.

what truly makes us happy is letting go of our fantasies about the future and instead engaging in the journey, in the process, and in the present moment.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

we wouldn't offer our child just one kind of book if we wanted him to become an avid reader: we can learn how to do the same with food.

Research has found that student participation drops more as class size increases (Kenney & Banerjee, 2011).

When you talk, your face has more moves than Lebron James.

The camerawork might be shaky, the plot might have holes, the audience might not even know what the film is about, but if your actors are compelling you can still keep people in their seats.