Quotes About Engagement

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness

Il libro non è un ente chiuso alla comunicazione: è una relazione, è un asse di innumerevoli relazioni.

he understood with a certain bitterness that he could expect nothing from those pupils who accepted his doctrine passively, but that he could expect something from those who occasionally dared to oppose him.

El presente está solo. La memoria Erige el tiempo. Sucesión y engaño Es la rutina del reloj. El año No es menos vano que la vana historia. (The present is singular. It is memory that sets up time. Both succession and error come with the routine of the clock. A year is no less vanity than is history.)

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Our effort has been to regain some space for true leisure, to bring back a fundamentally right possession of leisure, "active leisure".

This, presumably, means that we are now in league with life.

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

There's no meaning. What's the meaning of the universe? What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.

The best advice is to take it all as if it had been your intention - with that, you evoke the participation of your will.

Your product has a voice — and it's talking to your customers 24 hours a day.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come find you; you have to go to them sometimes.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

The world is full of people who smirk on the sidelines. I'd much rather be a cheerleader.

It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes?

And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' The Social Round. Always something going on.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.