Quotes About Engagement

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.