Quotes About Engagement

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

The job is not the work.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.