Quotes About Engagement

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Every environment is a cause. Its effect upon me is exactly proportionate to my correspondence with it. If I correspond with part of it, part of myself is influenced. If I correspond with more, more of myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced. If I correspond with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine.

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

If an employer urges men to do their best, and the men learn after a while that their best does not bring any reward, then they naturally drop back into "getting by." But if they see the fruits of hard work in their pay envelope—proof that harder work means higher pay—then also they begin to learn that they are a part of the business, and that its success depends on them and their success depends on it.

The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.

In his entry under the verb 'to antedate', Johnson quotes the essayist Jeremy Collier: 'By reading, a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past.' It is Johnson's engagement with the past and his revival of a diffuse pot-pourri of materials that make the Dictionary such an unexpectedly vibrant work. At

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Buckingham argues that young people's lack of interest in news and their disconnection from politics reflects their perception of disempowerment. "By and large, young people are not defined by society as political subjects, let alone as political agents. Even in the areas of social life

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Will the emerging Europe become an active participant in the construction of a new international order, or will it consume itself on its own internal issues?

What is new about the emerging world order is that, for the first time, the United States can neither withdraw from the world nor dominate it.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

If you want to understand the difference between a network and a community, ask your Facebook friends to help paint your house. Networks connect; communities care.

Christians are called unto holiness and are to be engaged actively in self-purification. They are to walk in good works which have been prepared before, unto which they have been called. But how is it possible to visualize this activity of believers outside of their culture? Is holiness restricted to the life of the soul?

The Christian is in the world, but not to be of it. This constitutes the basis of the perennial problem involved in the discussion of Christian culture. Because believers are not of the world, there have been many Christians who have taken a negative attitude toward culture.