Quotes About Engagement

The other thing about giving feedback is that you don't do it all day, every day. It's got to be in small doses at the right moment.

To be honest with everyone around you, humble no matter how good things get, reliable and consistent so that everyone knows what to expect, to willingly share your experiences with others—including those who might one day take your job!—to manage change with a smile on your face and stay engaged with everyone so that you can know how best to inspire them. That is what it takes to be a great teammate.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

didn't need a fifteen-minute conversation, just some human interaction. It can be had, and easily: a gesture, a joke, something that says, "I live in this world too.

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

One day I'll wish I had a recording of Gretchen that I could play when I start feeling sorry for myself. I don't know that I've ever met a more enthusiastic person. Her key, I think, is that she's never stopped being interested in things. She's never decided that everything reminds her of something else, that everything worthwhile has been crossed off her list.

North Carolina is temperate and populated with well-meaning people; therefore I will engage in oral sex with another man.

Dad doesn't pay attention when you talk to him, so Paul's taken to throwing the term IRS into his sentences. Then it's suddenly: "Hold on a second, what did you say?

I generally start the conversation immediately, that way the person wanting a book signed never has to say the things they've stood in line agonizing over, and that they will most likely regret later on. There are exceptions, though. I was in Baton Rouge in late May 2013, when a woman approached, saying, before I had a chance to throw her off balance, "You got me to put my bra back on." I set down my pen. "I beg your pardon?

What had we talked about and why hadn't I paid attention?

I left the store determined that when and if it was ever my turn and I was the author seated at that table, I was going to engage people until they grew old, or at least thirsty. Well, all right, then, they'd say, looking past me for the nearest exit, let me let you go. I would see them until they wilted.

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.' (Peter Schimdt)

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.

Es detestable pensar en el público, lo único interesante es pensar en una persona que te escucha.

J'ai pensé que les distractions cessent d'en être quand elles deviennent obligatoires.

Too many musicians — singers and instrumentalists — performed it so many times that it's hard not to just go through the motions of playing (or singing) the notes, rather than remembering that you have to turn the notes into real music.

You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

Hey. You know second contact is pretty important too.

Pace excites, and dialogue is pace. Falling into good dialogue on page one can put us in your pocket.

People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble.

The multitude of the curious and the offended descends upon him.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate . To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away

the two of us are giving ourselves something to do, citizens henceforth of a world in which desire no longer exists.