Quotes About Engagement

I feel like, anytime I'm onstage, I tend to feel very connected with people in the audience or with the sort of heartbeat or tempo of the audience.

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

Where you read a book and when you read and with whom (as your fellow readers) can make a big difference!

Constructing a good reading list involves not so much matching student interest with author's subject matter . . . as considering the degree of moral engagement a particular text seems able to make with any number of readers.

Sometimes we try to get our students into an analytic frame of mind, and we onder why they get bored after awhile! I've had a great reaction from some of the kids when I do a summary of a story, and then ask the kids if that story gets any bells going in their heads — gets them thinking about their own lives. that's when they start paying attention, and that's when they'll speak up.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

You have to compete in the same way for your reader's attention. He is not looking for your letter. He has a thousand and one other things more important to him to occupy his mind. Why should he divert his attention from them to plow through pages of type about you or your projects?

How do those people who don't read books plug the gaps in their day? The journeys, the break-times, the evenings when the telly is crap, the time in bed before sleep arrives?

So the best project management policies are those that promote open flow of information up and down the project hierarchy.

Assigning best people to the project ("If they're easy to give up, they're the wrong people.")

personal involvement offers the best way to determine if our charitable investments are being put to good use.

People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.

TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new "labour-saving efficiency", but if we think of politics as democratic deliberation, to leave people out is to miss the whole point of the exercise.

Every citizen must be actively aware of, participating in, and overseeing research, and that research should be focused on creating prosperity and peace, not war and poverty or suicidal needs. Transparency, which engenders truth, is the foundation for all this.

The world, it seemed, had been busy playing chess, While I had played checkers . . . and ignored the rest.

Balthasar says anything beautiful first arrests you—you're stopped in your tracks by it. Then, Balthasar says, the beautiful elects you. You've been chosen. Not everyone who hears Dylan becomes a fan, but I got elected. Finally, he says, the beautiful always sends you. You're sent on a mission.

Studies have indicated that the tone of voice may be more important than any other element in our response.

He was no defensive fighter; even in the teeth of overwhelming odds he always carried the war to the enemy.

Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism--' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?