Quotes About Engagement

he should always be the one to ask questions, and address himself to what was on your mind rather than risk boring you with what was on his

Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?" "I beg your pardon, ma'am?" "In church. Everybody else gets to read and one never does. It's not laid down, is it? It's not off-limits?" "Not that I'm aware, ma'am." "Good. Well in that case I'm going to start. Leviticus, here I come. Goodnight." The archbishop shook his head and went back to Strictly Come Dancing.

Reading was not doing… and as old as she was, she was still a doer.

but that apart he entirely talks about me- where do I live now, what am I reading, have I got a new play on but in that kind of half-attentive way politicians have, asking questions but scarcely listening to the answers- royalty, I imagine similarly.

Audiences shouldn't be homogenous before one even starts; it's the performance, even of a reading, that should weld them into a unit.

Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Well, refusing to continue to fight to the death (of your relationship) is hardly surrendering. Rather, if defeating your partner is also self-defeating, then stopping the fight is both showing the courage to do what is needed to survive and the courage to engage in self-preservation without harming your partner.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

A shared passion for a subject, large or small, could quickly put two strangers into a special state of subdued rapture and rivalry, distantly resembling love; but you had to hit on the subject.

As often with older people he was both bored and unaccountably involved at the same time.

there are many situations in which we lose something of our humanity by militarizing discussion and debate;

All books want our attention, but not all of them want the same kind of attention, and good readers know this and make the necessary adjustments.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

La buena escritura es la que empuja al lector a un compromiso activo. El arte realmente efectivo exige que el público haga al menos la mitad del trabajo

If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.

Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.

When I carry out my novice efforts to capture these, I feel both detached from the world (as any observer might do - especially when looking at it through a viewfinder) yet feel very connected to people around me. I am paying far more attention to them than normal; I'm far more interested in life. I'm attracted to people and the snapshots of life that show through their postures and faces.

My normal, regrettable practice of minimal eye contact and uncharitable pigeonholing is suspended in favor of a real fascination with everything human.

Even though its dark sometimes or its scary for the people involved, ultimately I always make sure theyre exhilarated by it. Its genuinely a real pleasure to take people to that place.

For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods.