Quotes About Engagement

As a scientist, I don't believe that our messages are ignored by the public because people don't care. Many people don't have a science background or find it challenging to stay engaged in a technical debate that can be really alienating

Walking the streets can be a form of social engagement, even of political action when we walk in concert, as we do in uprisings, demonstrations, and revolutions, but it can also be a means of inducing reverie, subjectivity, and imagination

reasonable. So in the practice of awareness, which has gone on for centuries after centuries and millennium after millennium, human beings have asked themselves, Hmmmm, how do I engage this process in a way that I don't become too frightened by what it might unfold or too complacent by avoiding it? This is the delicate work of awareness.

You don't have to subscribe to a political ideology, move to a commune, or join the guerrillas in the mountains; you wake up in a society suddenly transformed, and chances are good you will be part of that transformation in what you do, in whom you connect to, in how you feel. Something changes.

You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated, and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organization.

Semco's most precious asset is the wisdom of its workforce, and our success grows out of our employees' success.

At Semco we accept that every individual wants and needs a worthwhile pursuit in life. It's up to us to provide the environment and opportunity for their gratification.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Watcha doin? If you're like me, you're doin nothin, but you're doin it so well that everybody thinks you're doin somethin.

When other people were talking, she stared directly at them with very narrow understanding eyes that listened to them as if they were the only sound left in the world, as if everything else that made sound had disappeared entirely from the human ear and their voice was all there was left.

Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date.

The next time someone tells you a story or shares an accomplishment with you, notice your tendency to say something about yourself in response.

The purpose of a lecture should not be to impart information. There are books, libraries, nowadays the internet, for that. A lecture should inspire and provoke thought.

To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.

I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.

Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.

To evaluate weaknesses in your teen, be aware of his capacity to engage in effortful (and nonpreferred) mental tasks. If he is bright and a good "consumer" of information (interested in a range of topics, likes to read and watch educational programs), but is not a good "producer" of information (struggles with projects, papers, etc.), executive skills are likely involved.

The moral is that people are paying less attention to you than you believe.

The ideal organizational environment encourages everyone to observe, collect data, and speak up.

My only advice for reading the book is stop reading when it is no longer fun.