Quotes About Engagement

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

the Internet is merely 'the modern public square'

how to be a fully alive human being

el autor se dará x satisfecho si el lector compra este libro

Frieda smiled. "It's lesson number one in therapist school," she said. "It's the way of avoiding being put on the spot. So that whatever your patient says to you, you just say, 'What do you mean by that?' And then you're off the hook.

men all over the Victory were running to their posts, some to other tasks but the vast majority to man the ship's 104 guns

It would take the fleets all day just to catch sight of each other, let alone come to quarters

The first shots had been fired from the enemy line. The Battle of Trafalgar had begun.

As far as he was concerned, that meant he was free to address the others on equal terms,

Each gun fired in turn, straight into the unprotected stern of the Santa Ana,

It was a race to see which ship could fire

The crossfire was so heavy that French and Spanish cannon balls smacked into each other

Captain Harvey held his fire until the Fougueux's yardarms were almost touching the Téméraire's

There was nothing to be gained from fighting the British off Brest.

Almost a mile to the north, the Victory was still short of the enemy line,

The enemy ships in her path included the Santissima Trinidad, the Redoutable and the Bucentaure,

The Victory was still about 1,000 yards from the enemy, not yet in proper range.

Then seven or eight French and Spanish ships opened up together

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not even this one. Sure you can read about the different swimming strokes or the parts of a bicycle; you can learn the theory and physics behind the sport. But to get to the heart of the matter you've got to leap in and learn by doing.

Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.

All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more

In a talk at a recent Phi Beta Kappa meeting, Duke University professor Katherine Hayles confessed, "I can't get my students to read whole books anymore."10 Hayles teaches English; the students she's talking about are students of literature.

our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot," he wrote. The content of the medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." P 4