Quotes About Engagement

Who are you talking to, McGuire? Because you couldn't be talking to me. Not in that tone.

Arguing with real people was marginally better than getting upset with sheets of paper.

You become what you give your attention to.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Whatever your vocation, pursue it wholeheartedly. Consider, choose, and commit.

man of sense will not take part in politics either?; he knows the kinds of personal connections that politics involves. So what's to keep us from living as if we were as unsocial as flies?

So, if you have not been invited to a party, it is because you haven't paid the price of the invitation. It costs social engagement, conversation, encouragement, and praise. If you are not willing to pay this price, do not be upset when you don't receive an invitation.

There is nothing more inspiring than a speaker who makes clear to his audience that he has need of them.

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate whenever they meet.

Action is a unifier.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

A man is likely to mind his own business, when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his ownmeaningless affairs and by minding other people's business.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding .when it is not ,he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding others people's business. This expresses itself in gossip ,snooping and meddling ,and also in feverish interest in communal ,national and racial affairs . In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

The story of El Centro's creation and flourishing reminds us that civic power may not require a plan—but it does require a purpose.

The only time I can get the thoughts to stop is when I get lost in something very creative and puzzle-like—and then I only get lost briefly. This way of life is exhausting

nobody who can think should ever be forced into a situation that bores them.)

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

Community On and Off the Internet. Working paper, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people