Quotes About Engagement

Questions are an under-used piece of communication in our culture.

Living the same house or even working side by side doesn't guarantee togetherness. Connection requires involvement.

Living in the same house or even working side by side doesn't guarantee togetherness. Connection requires involvement.

I was gradually learning as a teacher why teachers' colleges were wrong to spend so much time on planning. The most important thing to learn was to be able to throw the plan away, whatever it was. What was necessary was to listen, to follow each minute to its peak, learning as you went.

That sounds like a pretty good place I said for something to say.' So much of what he said required no response, but if no one said anything, his words just hung there. The Last Days of California

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

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the most successful development occurs when developers talk directly to customers or are part of business teams.

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

Motivate your child to listen with words of support and love that let him know he is safe with you. Send your message in many different ways including talking, writing, drawing, and demonstrating. Touch your child lightly to help him attend to your instructions. Make sure you have his attention by making eye contact. Keep your message simple. Avoid asking a question if there really isn't a choice. Tell him what he can do. Limit the number of instructions you give at one time.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

I still bought many books, but more and more I read in them, rather than being whisked away by them. At some time impossible to pinpoint, I had begun to read more to be informed than to be immersed, much less to be transported.

Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.

Increasing numbers of developmental researchers observe that when parents read stories on e-books with their children, their interactions frequently center on the more mechanical and more gamelike aspects of e-books, rather than the content and the words and ideas in the stories. Most parents are simply better at fostering language and helping to clarify concepts when they read physical books to their preschool children.

Reading is an act of contemplation . . . an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction . . . it returns us to a reckoning with time.2 —David Ulin

The political correctness of diversity as a core value essentially cheats some children out of their right to be fully engaged in American society.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

When my mathematician husband is bored at parties, he sits quietly in a corner and does equations in his head. Only I know that he is no longer in the room. I can tell by his eyes and the contented look on his face.

You're not where you were, and you're not where you're going. You're here, so pay attention!

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Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Epicureans, from the beginning, rejected idealisms and absolutes that divorced people from context and from nature, and chose to engage reality instead. Our morality is contextual. Rather than hand down absolute dos and don'ts, the first Epicureans elaborated methods by which we can most effectively use our faculties.

Richard Dawkins lamented,9 we think that our kids need to have "fun, fun, fun" rather than, say, experience wonder or interest (they are not the same thing) when going to school or a museum.

Apparently the most effective way for firms to remain competitive is to 'hire smart people and let them talk to one another'.13