Quotes About Engagement

Conversation is not dialogue, it's monologues. No one ever really listens in conversations. It's civility that makes you wait and pretend you give a fuck what the other person is saying.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

So if you want to loyalize a customer, try remembering some specific need or preference the customer has communicated to you in some way, and deliver on that need without having to be reminded.

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

Nines must resist the urge to escape into "premature Buddhahood"... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.

Everything is political," O'Brien says. "Especially these days.

Fish that don't open their mouths don't get caught.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

I absolutely LOVE a one-star review. It means that I successfully pissed someone off enough to make them respond! In an age of sheeple...my God! That's a miracle!!

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

If there is a single secret to one-minute mindfulness, it is this: live the next sixty seconds as if your whole life depended on them, with a sense of urgency and excitement, or as if you had just arrived in a foreign land where there is nothing expected

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all.

Mr. Dortmunder, this is too good a story to just jump in and tell the end." Dortmunder hated stories that were that good, but

Leadership is action, not position.

Social cohesion and volunteering encourage good citizenship

You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

Talk without effort is nothing.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

It goes like this: teaching is touching life