Quotes About Engagement

But first you got to get out of the library sometimes and meet somebody, 'cause it ain't legal to marry books.

So you are the brash young lover returned from the dead?" the Frenchman finally said. "And you are the devoted fiance returned from the card room," Robert shot back...

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

All of us dream of being part of something greater than ourselves. All of us want to make a contribution. The greatest contribution you make isn't in the money you give to charities. It isn't in the nonprofit foundations you establish. And it isn't in the work you do as a volunteer. Your greatest contribution to something greater, to the lives of others, comes in what you do from nine to five.

The Costs of War Project at Brown University reports that from 9/11 through 2018, the United States waged war or maintained a military presence in seventy-six nations. That's 39 percent of the world's countries.

The true function of the teacher is to create the most favorable conditions for self-learning.… True teaching is not that which gives knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to gain it. One might say that he teaches best who teaches least. JOHN MILTON GREGORY

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Emotionally charged territory: What are the issues and ideas about which this person feels strongly? Should one engage these or avoid them? Can one mobilize this person around an area of strong feeling? How does one avoid the minefields that stand in the way of the desired change? Is this person motivated more by attraction to what she likes, or by fear of what she dislikes?

Few things in life are as enjoyable as when we concentrate on a difficult task, using all our skills, knowing what has to be done.

Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

When the reader has stopped to wonder at your delamificatious vocabulary, or, worse, when the reader has stopped because the word you've used has no more meaning to him than a random ptliijnbvc of letters, the reader is not involved in your story. ... Generally, saying 'edifice' instead of 'building' doesn't tell your reader anything about the building; it tells the reader that you know that word edifice.

Look at the Sad Lonely People Who Didn't Join a Book Group,

Como escritor, solo tienes un trabajo: hacer que el lector siga leyendo.

A poem reaches out exactly halfway, then you reach out halfway, then see what happens. If your thinking's willful and generous toward a poem, the poem'll be equally those things back. As for meaning, it'll mean something different to each person.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

Infusing work with purpose and meaning, however, is a two-way street. Yes, love what you do, but your company should love you back.

Less than 1 percent of our population have served our military abroad since the September 11, 2001, attacks. Add their direct family members, and they still amount to less than 5 percent of the nation. Most Americans have no skin in the game.

El trabajo debe ser algo personal. En todos los casos. No sólo para el artista y el empresario. El trabajo debe tener significado para el contable, el obrero de la construcción, el técnico, el director y el administrativo.

The merchant's success depends on his or her ability to tell a story. What people see or hear or smell or do when they enter a space guides their feelings, enticing them to celebrate whatever the seller has to offer.