Quotes About Engagement

Did having a dog make you less political?

HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked.

I said, I'm talking to you!" "No, you aren't," she said, continuing to walk through the mud. "If you were talking to me, you'd use my real name." Picking up his pace, the drunk laughed. "How'm I supposed to know who you are?" "Precisely!

Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself.

Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

Those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands, and those of you in the balcony can just rattle your jewelry.

You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world, unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it!

Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

Zelig-like penchant for being intimately involved in a series of key social and technological movements

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

I'd much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.

The lead—like the title—should be a flashlight that shines down into the story. A lead is a promise. It promises that the piece of writing is going to be like this. If it is not going to be so, don't use the lead.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Mathematics should be fun.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.