Quotes About Engagement

Her way of living in the world, filled with interest in what the world can give her, dismisses the egocentric abyss of the suicide's novel that ends by sinking into itself.

the position of the feet during reading is of maximum importance

A mesének nem a hang parancsol, hanem a fül.

Are you reading or daydreaming?

and she abandons herself to the flow of reading as if to the sole possible action of life…

C'è una linea di confine: da una parte ci sono quelli che fanno i libri, dall'altra quelli che li leggono. Io voglio restare una di quelli che li leggono, perciò sto attenta a tenermi sempre al di qua di quella linea. Se no, il piacere disinteressato di leggere finisce, o comunque si trasforma in un'altra cosa, che non è quello che voglio io.

What does my daughter have to do with crocodiles?

What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book?

It is true what they say: without an audience, a storyteller is just some guy talking to himself.

First I had to meet her, and see if she would be game.

I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

In einem Aufklärungsprozess gibt es nur Beteiligte.

Het is altijd vervelend wanneer iemand je geen antwoord geeft of niet doet alsof hij je niet verstaat. Dat gebeurt op vergaderingen ook wel eens. De woorden blijven in de lucht hangen, zoals dat heet, en de betrokkene doet zijn uiterste best zijn verlegenheid en irritatie te verbergen door zich met een scherpe wending in zijn betoog tot iemand te richten die op dat moment toevallig in zijn richting kijkt.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

From every point of view, therefore, the problem in question is the most serious concern of the Church. What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age?

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

There were things about these characters that sucked me in, regardless of and despite their being on Star Trek.

Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks "because it makes other people less boring.

In a culture of evangelism, there is an understanding that everyone is engaged. Have you ever heard someone say, "Evangelism is not my gift," as if that excused him from sharing his faith? That's a kindergarten understanding of evangelism. All Christians are called to share their faith as a point of faithfulness, not gifting (Matt. 28:19).

The quality of mindfulness is not a neutral or blank presence. True mindfulness is imbued with warmth, compassion, and interest. In the light of this engaged attention, we discover it is impossible to hate or fear anything or anyone we truly understand. The nature of mindfulness is engagement: where there is interest, a natural, unforced attention follows.

once you see the difference that paying full attention can make to the small things in life, you start to get an inkling of the cost of inattention.