Quotes About Engagement

If I stop to describe exactly how scared I was every time something scary happens, we'll be here for the next ten years. So do me a favour. At parts like this imagine how you'd've felt, and we'll both do fine.

Listen to those under your supervision. Really listen. Don't act as if you're listening and let it go in one ear and out the other. Faking it is worse than not doing it at all.

the use of rewards as a motivational strategy is clearly a risky proposition, so we continue to argue for thinking about educational practices that will engage students' interest and support the development of their self-regulation.

the observer might note that the teacher completes the strategy, but does not seem to monitor to see if the strategy is actually helping students activate their prior knowledge relative to the topic being studied.

When a lesson was observed by a supervisor and followed with a postconference, teachers talked less and were less reflective during the postconference than when engaged in a video-based reflection

The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.

When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.

What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own?

Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions.

I could wish somebody wanted to talk about something besides the weather. Everyone complains about it.

Here or there, it is the same fight, I think," Loial

They're too busy staring at one another to turn full attention on me.

me, and went away." "They looked at you," Mat said with a grin, "like you

You must be present to win. The more you attend to the moments in your life with consciousness, the more aware you will be of the opportunities to move toward what you want, and the more able you will be to direct your actions toward surpassing the best and reaching what's possible.

It is a consistent mark of the DDOs we studied that the senior people are as deeply engaged in the personal growth journey as the newest hires. Working

Before issuing a single directive or making a single decision, a leader should talk to people at every level of her organization, from the front office to the mail room. Career employees often have startlingly insightful views about the strengths and weaknesses of their organization, which of course they know well; as a result, they often have well-informed ideas for practical ways to improve it.

A leader must be friendly, approachable, and accessible but ought not to allow too much familiarity. After all, he's still the boss. It may sound stuffy, but a leader has to maintain his dignity, another old-fashioned notion. He must be cautious about the activities he agrees to join.

A leader must not only explain to and reassure employees that their jobs are important to the overall mission of the organization; he must ensure that their work really does contribute, that it is not pointless make-work or wheel spinning.

It was one thing for the country and much of the executive branch of government not to feel involved in the war, but for the DoD—the "department of war"—that was unacceptable.

cooperative, inter-agency and intra-agency effort in which all points of view are represented and have a hearing, and where people and institutions have a say in shaping the future structure, we can in fact bring about real change.

We must not be the world's policeman, and we must be very cautious about deploying our military forces to resolve others' internal problems. But we must also use every nonmilitary instrument of power we possess to promote freedom and encourage reform, with friends as well as rivals, because these objectives serve our national interest.

we had our hands full with the wars we were already in without looking for new ones.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

That's the way the world keeps on happening. Be interested in it.