Quotes About Engagement

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.

Dunia ini berbahaya untuk dijadikan tempat tinggal. Bukan karena orang yang berbuat jahat, melainkan karena orang yang duduk dan membiarkannya terjadi

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

Ceux qui ont le privilège de savoir ont le devoir d'agir.

La vida es muy peligrosa. No por las personas que hacen el mal, sino por las que se sientan a ver lo que pasa

Cei care au privilegiul de a ?ti, au datoria de a ac?iona

Creativity always comes a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that creativity be forthcoming. Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity that it will turn out to be

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.

The books on my shelves do not know me until I open them, yet I am certain that they address me — me and every other reader — by name; they await our comments and opinions. I am presumed in Plato as I am presumed in every book, even in those I'll never read.

But who shall be the master? The writer or the reader?

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

One touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented in your imagination.

The writer proposes, the readers dispose.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Una verdad sin interés puede ser eclipsada por una falsedad emocionante.

Glad to hear what? asked Jenny, emerging suddenly from her private interior world like a cuckoo from a clock. She received an explanation, smiled, nodded, cuckooed at last I see, and popped back, clapping shut the door behind her.