Quotes About Engagement

I want it to be a useful hour that someone comes away from feeling like it's been worthwhile. If I let them use up all the time with something that isn't moving them towards where they want to be, then I'm not doing my job. Repeating back what someone has said not only helps me to check I've understood it correctly, but also can help to get my voice in, and then move from hearing what someone has said to building on it and offering new ideas.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

It is only the blind eye of the adult that finds the familiar uninteresting.

Conversation with them turns only upon women, food, and (in the rainy season) the crops.

There is a fire raging, and we have two choices: we can turn our backs, or we can try to fight it. Yes, talking about racism is hard to do, and yes, we stumble over the words - but we who are white need to have this discussion among ourselves. Because then, even more of us will overhear, and - I hope - the conversation will spread.

It's like a telescope. My dad, no matter what he's doing, zooms right in so he can't see anything except what's right there with him at that minute. My mom, she's always on wide angle.

He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

It struck her that dispensing justice was really more about being present and engaged than anything else—unlike

I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.

Maybe. Because he's got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.

back of the other person. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who are reluctant to do this and/or feel very awkward when

Inaction is itself an action;

When we are around someone who arouses us, our blink rate also tends to increase.

you want to be a leader, lead and be visible. Don't hide in your office; walk the floors and talk to your staff.

Conversely, when we gaze away during a conversation, we tend to do so to engage a thought more clearly without the distraction of looking at the person with whom we are talking. This behavior is often mistaken as rudeness or as personal rejection, which it is not. Nor is it a sign of deception or disinterest; in fact, it is actually a comfort display (Vrij, 2003, 88–89).

From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in some way changed my life. I treat my books the same way I treat my clothes or my shoes or my records: I use them.

I got something to say to you, big shot. Say it, then, I said, while I'm used to the drone of your voice. I'd rather not get acclimated again.

I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, 'Ok...I'll be part of this world'.

Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone else doing the cooking. The single-service packet from the supermarket has replaced the sit-down home-cooked meal as the most common food choice. Easy foodism disengages people from the process and creates a level of food illiteracy unthinkable just a few short decades ago.

With great animation Heidi read the story of the prodigal son

Higher needs are often met in indirect ways. What we really need is time, mental space, understanding, a level of engagement with the minds and lives of others.