Quotes About Engagement

When you do your work happily, work will disappear.

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

You should know how to work hard but also enjoy the work.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.