Quotes About Engagement

The word peacemaker does not imply pacifism. It does not refer to those who do not fight, but those who actively bring conflict to an end.

If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

As long as it doesn't require special shoes, human sacrifice, or extra funding, you can do almost anything, as long as you let me know about it.

Free action is to live in the present society as though it were a natural society.

To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.

Most makers make things for a human audience. And to engage an audience you have to understand what they need.

Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.

Building something by gradually refining a prototype is good for morale because it keeps you engaged.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

This is our world now, whether you accept it or not. In some ways, we are pawns to greater powers. Expendable to a greater game. I'm not a pawn. You are if you don't wake up and do something.

Further, as a TL, I use a system where my team members get hands-on and either I cover or supervise. This is important because if I get caught getting hands-on, I am not doing my job as a leader. My job is to supervise my team and ensure that we maintain 360-degree security at all times.

When you get involved in something meaningful, you make your life count.

If anybody tried to threaten me I would simply look him in the eye and ask him in a firm but friendly voice, "Why?" The bully would have no choice but to engage me verbally, and this made violence next to impossible. I learned that it is very difficult to fight someone with whom you are already talking.

It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Sometimes the best catalyst for local responsibility is actually taking pilgrimages to other local places.

You know you've read a good book when you turn to the last page and feel as little as if you have lost a friend.

Ambassador Noyes had another trait I had noticed in many slow-witted people: he was tremendously interested in philosophy.

It seems to me that there is always something luminous in the face of a person in the act of reading.

Nothing is more satisfying in travel than to land in a place and assume an occupation, even a temporary one, as a teacher.

When she was done, I talked to her a little—and I was the only one.

We brought the Caravan to the United States two years ago, to inform the people, and many listened and shared our concern. They were very sympathetic.

He was eager to talk, glad to have a listener, and he didn't need prompting questions.