Quotes About Engagement

Work is more fun than fun.

the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about, that is the only way to enjoy i

The way a book is read- which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

I now think that all high performers have in common, knowingly or unknowingly, qualities and characteristics of the Super Mind. That is, they are calm under pressure and uncannily resilient to stress. They take care of their health, set high standards of innovation and creativity, and are not only intensely engaged in their actions but also capable of detaching when need be. They choose their projects carefully, keep the big picture in mind, and ignore trifling details.

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

The standing of the local high school football team was more likely to be the subject of conversation and concern than the war in Europe.

One attractive thing about me is that I'm never bored, because during any caesura my personal automatic pastime of questioning my own motives is there for me.

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Der wahre Leser muss der erweiterte Autor sein.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading in itself. Following the lines of something — not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend — becoming surefooted on the high-wire of the author's intention.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence

Ben buraday?m sevgili okuyucum, sen neredesin acaba?

Bir insan? gerçekten seyretmek isteyen, onun oyununa gerçekten kat?lan biri, o insan?n ancak kafas?nda ya?ayabilir.

You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?

If you can think of ways to entertain them and teach them at the same time, you'll get your information out. And all without making anyone look down." "Look down … ?" "Into the abyss, Daughter.