Quotes About Engagement

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

A negative universal politics, after all, aims at facing and working through our deadlocks, which always already confront us, even after "success." There is no triumph after victory, only more work, more struggle, more failure. "Success"—if at all—is only temporary, and idealism is always flawed and fleeting. Hence the abiding need to engage in politics.

A passion for the commons revives the stakes of politics.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

Each thinking mind is a political mind."

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

We communists are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

Go to any lengths to avoid preachiness! If you have to choose between the message and the story, always choose the story.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Absorb yourself in the realities of the task at hand to the point of forgetting your own existence. Then you will have no leisure to delight in life (4:14) or abhor death. That would make this mission of yours quite doable!

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Por favor, no pierdas tu tiempo ni el de tus clientes explicándoles lo que es el producto. Cuéntales lo que el producto puede hacer por ellos y por qué.

Memorize a simple strategy: Don't jump to speak, ask questions and listen, watch your anger thermometer and keep the temperature down.

Please don't waste your time and the prospect's time telling them what the product IS. Tell them what it can DO and why it will do it for them.

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.

What is called "apathy" is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It's not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don't know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.