Quotes About Engagement

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

She gave me the kind of a look and smile that I guess is what tends to turn bachelors into married men.

perhaps late twenties, trots over to him.

Birdwatching is also the perfect entry point to rekindle our innate bond with the natural world

When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Living is extremely tolerable, living keeps us busy and distracts us, living makes us laugh.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

A peculiar feature – no doubt a weakness – of my mental make-up is that I find it difficult to concentrate twice on the same subject. Normally

For so long you thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase you as a person. After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered hypervisible in the face of such language acts. Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are present. Your alertness, your openness, and your desire to engage actually demand your presence, your looking up, your talking back, and, as insane as it is, saying please.

I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room.

Our silence, our refusal of discomfort, our willful blindness, the shut-down feeling that refuses engagement, the rage that cancels complexity of response are also strategies. So is the need for answers and new strategies. The call for a strategy is a strategy, and I both respect and understand the necessity of that call.

I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming — not producing, not sharing — and we should say, 'No.'

When you are communicating with new people you do not have to know their names — after all, you've just met.

Dippers' are those who dig in into different issues and make commentaries without actually doing anything to resolve issues.

The world can only be empty if you will not put your heart and soul in it.

There are many jobs in the world that require too much walking and talking, not listening. You can do the walking by just talking. But not talking while walking. Listening is bound somewhere.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Because the trivial concerns oneself, one fails to see it might be boring.

An army that never leaves its defences Is bound to be defeated, said Napoleon, Who left them, and was defeated.

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A missional church is one where the whole membership is involved in some aspect of mission, so that mission is not a function of the church but its essential nature.

If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.