Quotes About Engagement

To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response.

People are more likely to be persuaded by what they hear themselves say.

MI is done "for" and "with" a person. It is an active collaboration between experts. People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves.

It takes two to speak truth—One to speak, and another to hear. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The first of four basic processes in MI is to engage the client in a collaborative working relationship.

People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling word and the working reader figures it out and savors it.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

You can't wait until your son is old enough to throw a football to become an involved father. If you want him to enjoy playing catch with you when he's ten, you have to start enjoying him when he's a baby. (The same goes for girls, including the part where they'll need a baseball glove.)

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.

don't understand the concept of retirement.

the most important element in the entire process was story, story, story. "It's always the good story," he said. "It doesn't matter how many ships you blow up, how many missiles you fire, how many fights or disasters or stunts you show. Is it a good story? Is it something you can take home with

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading

The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society - in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.

If you want to do something, the most practical thing I can tell you is: weep. First of all, care enough to weep.

Loss of trust matters because distrust leads people to disengage from their communities, reduce commitment to their workplace and lose the degree to which they share important information with each other. In short, without trust, people focus on self-protection and become unwilling to make themselves vulnerable. (...) People who lack trust are limited in what they can accomplish together.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.