Quotes About Engagement

we don't notice a single sign or display we pass until that mission is accomplished.

If you tell too much too soon, you'll overload them and they'll give up. If you confuse them, they'll ignore the message altogether.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

I cannot remember what we talked about except that we never stopped talking.

Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you're walking out of the theater you can't remember anything at all about your own life.

Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something,

Can you answer that question, Madelaine?" asked Miss Green suddenly. Maddy jerked herself away from her dreams. "No, Miss Green." "Can you if you think carefully?" "No," said Maddy. "Did you hear the question?" "No," said Maddy. "Have you any interest whatsoever in what I've been saying?" "No," said Maddy truthfully,

I wanted to ask you one day but the time never seemed right, but we started talking and...Hell, I don't even have a ring. ... I'm naked here, bella, just laying myself out for you, telling you how I feel.

Javier to Hunter: "How long you and Dargangelo been married?

In college, books assigned for class were read as competitive sport - the more critically, the better.

Tuning out no longer means spacing out; it means tuning in to something else.

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.

I've learned in my travels not to ask too many questions. It's better to talk about yourself. Offer something of yourself and your own story so that the dialogue turns into a bartering of firsts.

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Our kryptonite is boredom," said Dr. Hallowell. "If stimulation doesn't occur, we create it. We self-medicate with adrenaline.

I spent the rest of the night researching this guy.

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness. They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Under stress, an unexercised heart will explode in frustration or fury. If the situation is especially tense, that exploding heart may be hurled like a fragment grenade toward the source of its pain. But a heart that has been consistently exercised through conscious engagement with suffering is more likely to break open instead of apart. Such a heart has learned how to flex to hold tension in a way that expands its capacity for both suffering and joy.

When I'm asked for the 'elevator speech' that sums up my work, I always respond, 'I always take the stairs, so I don't have an elevator speech. If you'd like to walk with me awhile, I'd love to talk.' I don't know of a life worth living or work worth doing that can be reduced to a sound bite." (40)

The English word "truth" comes from a Germanic root that also gives rise to our word "troth," as in the ancient vow "I pledge thee my troth." With this word one person enters a covenant with another, a pledge to engage in mutually accountable and transforming relationship...to know in truth is to become betrothed, to engage the known with one's whole self...to know in truth is to be known as well.

it is disconcerting to learn that while 73 percent of Americans can name the Three Stooges, only 42 percent can name the three branches of government.6

I'll be asking if I was faithful to my gifts, to the needs I saw around me, and to the ways I engaged those needs with my gifts—faithful, that is, to the value, rightness, and truth of offering the world the best I had, as best I could. For helping me understand this—and for imbuing