Quotes About Engagement

I could feel him paying attention to me with every inch of his being. He wanted to know me. My skin tightened with the pleasure of it. So I answered.

Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

There is a lot about what is going on here that I don't understand. But I am participating anyway.

I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.

Humans touch stuff all the time, I wish they wouldn't.

Le envío pings, pero no recibo respuesta.

within easy unwanted talking range.

All real life is meeting.

Spirit is not in the I but between I and You.

Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being.

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being.

All real living is meeting.

All actual life is encounter.

A great deal of the information embedded in a work of art is not – yet at least – accessible just by looking at an image of it while sitting at home. The deepest and richest experiences are not virtual but physical: they involve looking at real things and talking to real people.

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

In some instances, I've found that executives don't even use their own products.

the tacit tradition of making small talk with your neighbors springs from the desire to establish commonality, even if you're talking about something as generic as the weather, or how the local sports team did last night. Small talk also has the secondary effect of defusing conflict or even resentment.

When we read a book, these specialized cells respond as if we are actually doing what the book character is doing."5

leadership requires disturbing people—but at a rate they can absorb.

The hope of leadership lies in the capacity to deliver disturbing news and raise difficult questions in a way that people can absorb, prodding them to take up the message rather than ignore it or kill the messenger.

To survive and succeed in exercising leadership, you must work as closely with your opponents as you do with your supporters.

Leadership is an improvisational art. You may have an overarching vision, clear, orienting values, and even a strategic plan, but what you actually do from moment to moment cannot be scripted. To be effective, you must respond to what is happening.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.