Quotes About Engagement

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

Wherever you are is called Here and you must treat it as a powerful stranger.

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.

We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)

Hey." He glanced away from her, instead looking down at the coffin. He looked back at her and raised his eyebrows. "Want a peek?

My friends," he began, and one thumb securely hooked itself in his waistcoat pocket while his other hand hung at his side ready for a battery of theatrical gestures.

The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest but wholeheartedness

Work among all its abstracts, is actually intimacy, the place where the self meets the world.

work is achieved not by creating a hermetic space sealed off from the world, but nel mezzo, in the middle of everything.

The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

The antidote to exhaustion is not rest; it's wholeheartedness.

Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall.

John. I would ask you what you are doing, but I fear you would actually tell me.

You want to hear a story? Well, buckle the fuck up." From: What the Hell Did I Just Read

You have to talk through the bratwurst from now on.

John said, "When they get here, let me do all the talking." I said, "Amy, when they get here, I want you to do all of the talking. I'll be busy restraining John.

John and I have made this stuff our hobby, in the way that an especially attractive prisoner makes a hobby out of not getting raped.

Ask me anything,

Praise can be hard to come by and fleeting when you do get it but no one can take away pride from, and engagement in, hard work.

Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up.

We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, "for better or worse", and you didn't see it like that.

He was succeeding admirably in communicating his own boredom to his audience.

The audience is now fully interactive, unfortunately the spectacle is a corpse

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.