Quotes About Engagement

Interesting, I said - using a word I often use when students come out with an earnest banality - and left it at that.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

Ideas gathered from reading will always be bookish ideas. Go to the persons and objects directly. Have a painter's eye.

Ton public n'est ni le public des livres, ni celui des spectacles, ni celui des expositions, ni celui des concerts. Tu n'as à satisfaire ni le goût littéraire, ni le théâtral, ni le pictural, ni le musical.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

"Let me not live," said Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

If we really want to spend our days programming, we are going to have to learn to talk to—people.1

Professionals work together. You can't work together while you are sitting in corners wearing headphones. So I want you sitting around tables facing each other. I want you to be able to smell each other's fear. I want you to be able to overhear someone's frustrated mutterings. I want serendipitous communication, both verbal and body language. I want you communicating as a unit.

You must understand that when you marry a framework to your application, you will be stuck with that framework for the rest of the life cycle of that application. For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, forsaking all others, you will be using that framework. This is not a commitment to be entered into lightly.

Programming is a social activity.

The one kind of organizing activity that really engaged his interest and aroused his effort was "organizational work" in the special Bolshevik sense of personnel placement.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Immerse yourself in the world or the industry that you wish to master.

Because people's thoughts tend to revolve around their daily concerns and insecurities, you cannot proceed with a seduction until you slowly put their anxieties to sleep and fill their distracted minds with thoughts of you.

We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality.

You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure.