Quotes About Engagement

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems the foundation of most of our passions and pursuits.

subject matter you select must: a) fire your enthusiasm and curiosity for at least the length of time it will take to produce a meaningful body of work; b) lend itself to images, as opposed to words and; c) remain continuously accessible so that you can return time and again to the same topic whenever you wish or have time. I

God's creative activity in history is not only the preservation of what he has made; it is a continuous, creative engagement with his world, leading it forward to its future glory.15

K' is for communications.

What is new in your fight is the fact that it was initiated, fed, and sustained by students.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

We can ask ourselves each day, how has my "inner person" been given the opportunity to speak and act today?

Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important" -John Carmack

Story in a game," he said, "is like a story in a porn movie; it's expected to be there, but it's not that important.

Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

Reading, after all, is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more that for us to disengage.

This is how we interact now, by mouthing off, steering every conversation back to our agendas, skimming the surface of each subject looking for an opportunity to spew.

a good book teaches the reader how to read it.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? —DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

This generation can only reach this generation.

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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

You never get bored with God in action.