Quotes About Engagement

As the decision-maker in your organization, you must become intimately engaged with leadership development, hiring, and firing.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

We'll never get them to notice us if we say ordinary things in an ordinary way.

Witness calls for with ness, the complete opposite of detached observation... To receive the witness of another is to enter into a vision that isn't accessible to us in isolation; we realize ourselves as members of one another and feel compelled to act accordingly, finding that we can't easily live with ourselves if we don't.

God is at work in all the places we already inhabit. He is bigger than the arena of our own immediate church programs and ideas about evangelism. He is a prodigal God recklessly working in people and situations of all types. If we truly believe God is at work in the world, we must take the time to pay attention, listen, and discern what God is doing in the lives of those around us.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

When we see ourselves and our world defined by stereotypical expectations, the very nature of our engagement alters. And our susceptibility to this transformation of behavior may diminish our capacity to appreciate important nuance in our surroundings. In a world where we're looking for 'familiar' or 'similar' through favorable lenses and seeing 'unfamiliar' as somehow lesser, we are at risk of being blind to the self-evident.

While letters can embody ongoing conversations, social media is primarily made up of comments—and those are two very different things.

While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places and communities we live in has diminished. Never has so much been decided for so many by so few.

Según él, de lo que se trataba no era de que nos guste leer o nos deje de gustar, sino más bien de saber cómo hallar el libro que nos corresponde. A todo el mundo le puede encantar leer si se cumple la condición de tener en las manos la novela adecuada, la que nos va a gustar, la que nos va a decir algo y que no podremos soltar.

According to him, it was not a question of liking or not liking to read, but of finding the book that was meant for you. Everybody could love reading, as long as they had the right book in their hands, a book that spoke to them, a book they could not bear to part with.

Auf die ein oder andere Weise erkennt sich ein Leser in einem Buch immer selbst wieder. Angeregtes Lesen ist die totale Egomanie. Man ist automatisch auf der Suche nach dem, was einen persönlich anspricht. Ein Autor kann eine völlig groteske und unwahrscheinlich anmutende Geschichte erzählen, es wird immer einen Leser geben, der verkündet: »Unglaublich, Sie haben mein Leben aufgeschrieben!«

Ich finde, die Suche nach einem Geprächsthema ist ein gutes Gesprächsthema.»

Debo confesarle que no estoy aquí por casualidad. Me condujo su mirada. Cuando me lo cruzo en el ascensor, usted tiene una forma extraña de mirarme. Una mirada absolutamente neutra.

Thomas Merton warns, "There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with reality."1 The truly spiritual life is not an escape from reality but a total commitment to it.

When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me, or at least to be so painfully aware of being me.

Instead, the situation has sparked an efflorescence of social media (Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter): basically, of forms of electronic media that lend themselves to being produced and consumed while pretending to do something else. I am convinced this is the primary reason for the rise of social media...

Americans pride themselves on being a democratic society, but if you ask the average American "When was the last time you were part of a group of more than five people who made a collective decision on a more or less equal basis?" most will just scratch their heads.

politically, there is no better way to ensure people are not politically active or aware than to have them working, commuting to work, or preparing for work every moment of the day.

we are all in the situation of the inmate who prefers working in the prison laundry to sitting in the cell watching TV all day.

Alle waren jetzt damit beschäftigt, den Tisch zu decken, und niemand außer ihr bemerkte, was das Baby tat. Es drückte seine Lippen in das Innere von Avrams Hand, blökte ein sanftes und angenehmes Ba-ba-ba und genoss mit seinem ganzen Sein den Klang und das Kitzeln, das es wohl in den Lippen spürte. Auch in Oras Hals und Mund schwebte ein anregendes Summen, ihre Lippen spürten es auch, und in ihr murmelte es stimmlos ba-ba-ba.

If you love your government, you are not paying attention.

Reconfirm scheduled events before they happen. Announce changes to scheduled or committed dates as soon as they change. Intimacy

A new $100,000 engagement can be very profitable, or be one that loses the firm a lot of money. Yet many firms reward partners for the volume of fees (top-line) that they bring in, not whether or not they bring in profitable work.