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Quotes About Engagement

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.
~ Jennifer Pahlka
Jung called the Shadow 'the seat of creativity'. Embracing the Shadow means opening yourself up to possibilities, letting go of fixed certainties about the Self and the world. It means engaging with complications and conflicts, which are necessary aspects of all creative work.
~ Jenny Alexander
Yes! Do you never listen?" "I never listen." "Okay, well, it's a good thing I don't talk much then, isn't it?
~ Jenny Colgan
However, these days everyone holds their stupid smartphone in front of them the entire time in case somebody likes a dog picture on Facebook and they miss it by two seconds...
~ Jenny Colgan
Reading is being in stuff." Ben squinted. "Like actually being there?" "Like actually being there. You plug straight into the writer's brain. It's just you and them. You experience what they experience.
~ Jenny Colgan
Good," said Anita. "Do you know what you're not thinking about when you're slicing zucchini?" "Everything else?" "Correct. You're not overthinking everything else.
~ Jenny Colgan
But when you read a book, you feel like you're in it.
~ Jenny Colgan
You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.
~ Jenny Han
I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.
~ Jenny Han
Here's the thing. My one piece of advice to you. You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.
~ Jenny Han
I don't like taking my eyes away from what's happening right in front of me, not for a second.
~ Jenny Han
I don't want to have to play catch-up at the end of the day. I need to be a part of his daily life and he needs to be a part of mine.
~ Jenny Han
Jeremiah watched, bemused, but I could tell he was alert, ready to jump in if he needed to.
~ Jenny Han
It's a white-gold princess cut with a diamond halo.
~ Jenny Han
She hot-potatoes the phone to me.
~ Jenny Han
He looks at you a lot, Lara Jean. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.
~ Jenny Han
He...he looks at you a lot, Lara Jean. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.
~ Jenny Han
No, I was looking at you.
~ Jenny Han
She always says people's names like I should already know who they are.
~ Jenny Han
What the Yoga People say: None of this is banal, if only you would attend to it.
~ Jenny Offill
What did you do today, you'd say when you got home from work, and I'd try my best to craft an anecdote for you out of nothing.
~ Jenny Offill
Christine always wanted to know what was afoot, and any matter on which she was prevented from giving her opinion she took to be going badly.
~ Jeremias Gotthelf
We don't pass by on the other side.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
Gain people's emotional commitment to the strategy Any strategy, however brilliant, will fail unless people understand it and are emotionally committed to its success. Therefore it is crucial to explain why the strategy is important to the organisation and the individual.
~ Jeremy Kourdi The Economist