Quotes About Engagement

Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

When put to it, I can be an alright conversationalist. But I find openings are always tricky.

This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for the future.

You must keep active mentally as well as physically. I always try to do that.

the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

I spend much of my time roaming the planet on assorted travel grants, studiously avoiding the sorts of honest work in which most people engage.

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

The university should not be a cloister; it should be a laboratory that creates habits of action through inquiry laced with compassion, memory, and fidelity.

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

As the belletrist extraordinaire Christopher Hitchens once told me, mastering the pen and the podium means never having to dine or sleep alone.

Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face, do something useful with a stupid look on your face.

For me, the heart of librarianship is learning. It's a cyclical process of support, engagement, and discovery with deep roots in the concepts of service, access, and freedom to pursue interests of all kinds. No matter what type of institution, someone is gaining knowledge, finding information, or creating something new based on our facilitation.

The need to be vocal can't be overemphasized: "We need to change the concept of the library as restricted, quiet space--we bustle, we rock, we engage, but so many people in the community do not know this.

Libraries encourage the heart, which means we should lead from the heart, learn from the heart, and play from the heart. It means we are all-in all the time, not just when it's convenient.

Whether people work for themselves or for others, they increasingly want to understand how their actions are contributing to a greater good.They will want to be engaged in work that contributes to society.

Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet.

My attention span is about this big.

Write your screenplays to raise, develop, and answer one central dramatic question so that your reader or audience will stay hooked.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Conversations may thus be seen as a kind of "joint attention to mental content" (O'Madagain and Tomasello, forthcoming).

She deflected direct questions with the skill of a fencing champ, with little parries that left us still engaged but pointed a few degrees off center.

Trump usually avoided: he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.