Quotes About Engagement

we only read when you write

small, but growing, spreading like ripples into circles of pleasure and confusion and anger that impinged upon and interfered with each other to form new patterns of emotion as people turned to their neighbors in the cablecar line and pedicab rank to question, to talk, to argue, to console, and to draw together into eddies of opinion, whirlpools of controversy.

A bicycle is a friend in a way that an automobile can never be. A car can be a lover: sophisticated, complex, temperamental, but one wrong step and the affair is over. The bicycle is simple, undemanding, faithful, but as with any friendship, you must work at it, maintain it, repair it where necessary, spend time with it, get to know its character.

My name is Kilimanjaro West," he said, and something in the way he spoke that name made the crowded 'lectrovan fall electrically quiet. "Pleased to meet you all.

Also, he was more discriminating now than he had been then, back in the old days when he would read a book to its bitter end whether he liked it or not. These days, a book he disliked was unlikely to last ten pages of his concentration.

I'm game if you are.

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

Unless you are genuinely interested in working with someone, don't. It doesn't matter how big an expert they are, or how much grant money the project would bring in. Stay away from things that do not interest you.

If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things we've missed or misunderstood.

I showed up

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information.

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.

El mejor jugador de un juego es el espectador… pregúntale.

Maghribi: El aprendizaje es en la actividad. Aprender sólo por medio de palabras es una actividad menor.

Toda aproximación a un estudio o a un individuo debe comenzar con una apetencia de atención. Sin embargo...nunca debe acabar de esta manera.

Very often, people believe they are doing "significant" things when they merely want an interchange of attention.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.