Quotes About Engagement

Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.

The old man woke up at once. "Ay, ay!" cried Whitefield, fixing his eyes on him, "I have waked you up, have I? I meant to do it. I am not come here to preach to stocks and stones: I have come to you in the name of the Lord God of Hosts, and I must, and will, have an audience.

The most miserable creature on earth is the man who has nothing to do. Work for the hands or work for the mind is absolutely essential to human happiness.

when people learn what they believe and why, they become bold in their witness and attractive in the way they engage others in debate or dialogue.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are. You may be missing something wonderful. Jeffrey Michael Thomas

The world responds to those who ask—Lisa

A boss might give instructions and bark orders, a consultant would analyze data and give advice, but a coach would use curiosity to ask, listen and draw out the best from people.

Remuneration, promotion and perks — everything falls into place if you enjoy your work.

Tired of a bureaucracy that tied their hands with absurd rules of engagement and a system that, as Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling famously noted, imposed harsher punishments on privates who lost rifles than on generals who lost wars, Raife didn't look back. He left the SEAL side of his life behind and dropped off the radar.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it

you must be present to win.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6 The

you should regularly ask your staff, employees, and customers: "Can you tell me something I don't want to hear?

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

I really like children to watch my movies.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.