Quotes About Engagement

Estar presente significa poner todo tu ser –tu atención y tu conciencia– cuando estés con tu hijo.

Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional intensity, and creative exploration, life can become boring, isolating, dull, and routinized.

What's even more exciting is what happens after we appeal to the upstairs brain. When it gets engaged repeatedly, it becomes strong. Neurons that fire together wire together.

Aborda el mundo desde lo que hemos llamado un cerebro afirmativo, interactuando con nuevas oportunidades y retos desde una postura abierta, curiosa y receptiva, en lugar de rígida, temerosa y reactiva.

Ready to hear me, ready to learn, ready to understand?

at these moments, logic isn't our primary vehicle for bringing some sort of

being present with others involves the experience of openness to whatever arises in reality. Presence means being open, now, to whatever is. We

situation. But notice how Laura drew the story out of her son, letting him take an active role in the storytelling process. She acted primarily as a facilitator, helping get the facts of the event straight. This is how stories empower us to move forward and master the moments when we feel out of control.

For Confucius to take on a student he must sense a similar passion and commitment: "Those not excited I do not instruct; those not eager I do not enlighten. If I raise up one corner and they do not come back with three corners, I do not continue" (7.8). Confucius presumably is drawing on his own experience. Learning, he knows, can be difficult and the path long. Success demands desire and perseverance. It also demands true engagement and intellectual initiative.

it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand.

The often-used phrase "pay attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?

I think what working in a short film online is that the response from the audience is immediate whether your short film or web-series works or not, it is immediate. You can see comments and you can also see how many people have viewed it.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

A viewer's imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly show in a horror movie... try to engage that imagination, and the results can be magical.

It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.

The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.