Quotes About Engagement

as a rule, we are all happier when we give activities, like talking to friends, our full attention.

Our attention is attracted to what's new, remember, so using varied skills focuses our attention on them, thus making purpose more salient.

My ability to keep weight training—my "stickability"—is simply sticking with an activity that brings happiness in the current moment, rather than in the future. It's the pleasure-purpose feedback you get while you are engaged in an activity that matters most.

Distraction will, of course, interrupt attending to experiences; one survey reported

Here are some indicators of successful management: Things get done well. Problems are not big surprises. Issues get resolved. Progress continues even when managers aren't there. People are engaged with their work and each other. Conflict is productive rather than territorial. New ideas emerge spontaneously from a variety of people.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Our goal is to present climate science and solutions in language that is accessible and compelling to the broadest audience, from ninth graders to pipe fitters, from graduate students to farmers.

We are emotionally and physically healthier when we are meaningfully engaged with other people. This means engaged with others in compassionate and altruistic ways.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians.

Work takes all the time and with it one has no leisure for the republic and his friends.

The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able to relate to and engage with the extremely powerful and archetypal forces (both dark and light) of the unconscious. If we don't have a strongly developed sense of self (even though it is not, ultimately speaking, the true self), we will get overwhelmed and taken over by the powers of the unconscious such that we will compulsively act them out.

we must engage people relationally, heart to heart and life on life. I don't think anyone is truly won to Christ by beating them in an argument or arousing their curiosity and giving them a free meal. You have to win their heart. Winning the heart requires life-on-life sharing in view of Jesus, who became incarnate and gave his life for us.

And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

I'd never read anything like these texts, which taught me that literature demands concentration but pays you back in compound interest.

In fact, during my research and interviews with McKinsey alumni, the Talk element of the model was consistently ranked the most important of all interpersonal elements. Why is it that the simple act of talking can cause so many problems in team problem solving? Generally, because we don't have specific Rules of Engagement; because we like to speak more often than we listen; and because we get personally attached to our own points of view.

Instead, consider taking notes or saying you would like to call either your sponsor or their sponsor, so an outsider can be brought into the conversation.

The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don't know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis.

I love my job when I'm not there.

Our failure to acknowledge fathers' importance is now reflected in the shape of the American family. Fathers are disappearing. Fewer American fathers are participating in the lives of their children now than at any time since the United States began keeping records.

If you meet a fencing-master on the road, you may give him your sword, If you meet a poet, you may offer him your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once.