Quotes About Engagement

Lezen is een soort handgemeen tussen lezer en boek. Het is een strijd. (...) Het is een afstandelijke houding, waarin ik leer de ruimte van mijn verbeelding te vergroten, alsof ik bepaalde rollen uitprobeer. Dat is een oefening in vrijheid en geeft aan mijn eigen levensovertuiging een zekere soepelheid en groothartigheid. Door op deze manier andere wegen uit te proberen, scheppen we opnieuw ruimte om onze houding te overwegen.

I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.

Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome.

Here he briefly attended lectures by Gustav Kirchhoff, said to have been the most boring lecturer in all Germany at the time. (Some feat, considering

Heldmann believes that things that get in the way of listening include preoccupation with your own point, distracting thoughts, deciding that you already know what the other person is going to say, and twisting the speaker's message to fit your expectations.

Reflective listening is another helpful style of communicating where you give the speaker your impression of what he or she is feeling to show you are listening and that you care.

Heldmann suggests paraphrasing, or repeating, the key points of the speaker's statements to show that you want to understand what the person is saying. Develop your own style of doing this so it comes across naturally.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Passief ondergaand of actief ingrijpend, zwijgen of spreken. Het ene is ziekmakend, het andere helpt ons gezond te blijven.

We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.

the modern media is the mass media and they understand only four things. Every story carried by the modern media involves one of these four things: sex, scandal, violence and celebrity culture. If a story does not include one of those four elements, it isn't a story and it becomes difficult if not impossible to get the message out. So, you have to tie your story to one of the four elements to ensure that it is picked up and that you get your message out. (p. 125)

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

For me the mark of a great History teacher is the ability to take students to places outside the classroom while staying in the classroom.