Quotes About Engagement

In for a sheep, in for a gargant.

I figure everyone is so insane about the internet there must be something cool there.

The creation of the community encourages investment in that community," I said. "Once they've invested, they'll fight to protect it.

a captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty.

They didn't use discussion as a sham process to let people "have their say" so that they could "buy in" to a predetermined decision. The process was more like a heated scientific debate, with people engaged in a search for the best answers.

When children say they are bored, it usually means "I want you to spend more time with me." Playing with our kids is one of the great joys of parenting.

Communication is not a one-way street.

Evangelism is not a monologue, but a dialogue.

Policework is like having ringside seats to the greatest show on Earth! (Ringling Bro's ref.)

Cynicism really comes out of despair, but the antidote to cynicism is not optimism but action.

It was one of the best examples I have seen of the church stepping up to be the church.

One megachurch pastor told me, "I only have our people for two hours per week, if I am lucky, and Fox News has them 24/7.

The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through the mind of either.

Maybe the hokie pokie is what it's all about?

Quem muito se evita, se convive

Whether they represent us as clowns or criminals, the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again.

It's more common for the students I've worked with to read too much than to read too little. They use reading as a distraction, or as a way to avoid having to think their own thoughts, or as a magic charm: "If I read everything in the field, then I'll be able to write and be sure I haven't missed anything.

I'm just telling you to live in [the world]. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.

It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about.

I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people," she said. "The hardest is with one.

one more piece of evidence that assigned reading makes nothing happen.

And how could the Internet bring him to her, if he wasn't showing up on his own two feet?

Some folks called Dewar a dilettante; he did not consider it an appropriate term, indicating as it did a lack of seriousness, a trifling sort of interest.