Quotes About Engagement

He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.

You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

No reason to join a fight until you know what side you're on.

Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.

Exactly," said Slank.

Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

And worse, you're not doing anything interesting anymore. You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months. Have you?

You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen

You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months.

This was Josie's preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your children wander and injure themselves but not significantly. Sit and do nothing. When they come back to show you something, some rock or mop of seaweed, inspect it and ask questions about it. Socrates invented the ideal method for the parent who likes to sit and do very little.

Education about Yemen will come through customers' engagement with the product. And in the meantime you'll employ actual Yemeni people. And you'll do something tangible. And you'll make a living. And you won't have to ask for donations. And it won't have to be about Islam. You're not selling Islamic coffee beans. Sell Yemeni beans. Do that, and do it well, and the rest will follow.

They downloaded another customer query, and Mae scrolled through the boilerplates, found the appropriate answer, personalized it, and sent it back.

They were locked in mutual regard, and the moment, the way it stretched and luxuriated in itself, asked for continuation. Why move?

He was forever trying to find ways to stay inside and avoid engagement with humans in real space. And though he carried a low-intensity outrage about privacy issues, he prized convenience above all

should strive to have a mix of these four types of activities at some point during your daily and weekly routines: 1. Physical Activity 2. Mental Stimulation 3. Social Interaction 4. Fulfillment

it's really in the business of keeping our eyes on the TV or our fingers clicking.

When we fail to live a life outside politics, we become a slave to it. While it's certainly important to be aware of all the issues I've discussed here, it's way more important to live a well-rounded, fully-realized life that's regularly removed from all the drama. In order to do this, we must learn to distinguish between being politically engaged and politically obsessed.

You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life, that's just being a tourist.

THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage on some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing.