Quotes About Engagement

Managers are always saying they want their people to think more, yet they do not always encourage them to do that. That is because most managers think they have to have all the answers, rather than most of the questions. If you consistently tell people what to do, you foster the telling culture most organizations display and you stifle their thinking habits.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Organizations are not just places where people have jobs.

All people are natural story-tellers. We tell a story every time we tell someone what we did that day or share an opinion of our favorite movie. If you want to be a story-teller, good job, you already are one!

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Jane turned and looked at Rob who was still staring into space with a crazed look on his face. 'Are you listening to this?' she said as she thumped him on the arm. Rob turned to her and broke into a broad grin. 'Listening to what?' he laughed. 'I'm loaded. I don't have to listen to anything!' 'Yes you do,' said England calmly. 'You have to listen very carefully.

when an audience's emotions are engaged, that audience is more vulnerable to suggestion

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

I think it is essential to promote your work, since there are over 100,000 books published each year, and readers can fall in love with books they've never heard about.

My heart wasn't in it.

The idea of proposing marriage with a diamond ring seems like a tradition so old, and so steeped in our culture, you'd think it was one of the Ten Commandments delivered to Moses on Mt. Sinai. But it's a recent, man-made creation. De Beers brilliantly fostered this shared mythology, taking a relatively abundant, relatively inexpensive item that wasn't selling, and convincing the public over decades that a diamond engagement ring was an indispensable

Richard Kemp, commander of British forces in Afghanistan, had written in a formal report that, "The Taliban's use of women to shield gunmen as they engage NATO forces is now so normal it is deemed barely worthy of comment.

So a key ingredient to achieving happiness is to become engaged in activities that consume our concentration, that don't give our imaginations room to find new things to worry about. If we're totally focused on something we enjoy, living in the moment, like every other animal in the animal kingdom, we're alive, electric—and happy. Especially if we're challenging ourselves, overcoming obstacles, improving, achieving.

I firmly believe that until the churches of North America are led more deeply into the darkness of our epoch, they will continue to exist largely on the surface of life and history. I

Vyrai dešimt kart? patrauklesni, kai tiktai klausosi.

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

For them absolutely everything in life is a political choice and a political act.

The answer that has presented itself in recent years is to engage in new battles, ever fiercer campaigns and ever more niche demands. To find meaning by waging a constant war against anybody who seems to be on the wrong side of a question which may itself have just been reframed and the answer to which has only just been altered.

Paradoxically, there is also considerable persuasion power in inquiry and listening.

Because good listening requires an open and honest curiosity about the other person, and a willingness and ability to keep the spotlight on them. Buried emotions draw the spotlight back to us. Instead of wondering, "How does what they are saying make sense?

A greater sense of do-it-yourself (DIY) politics is exposed by the fact Cascadians are more likely to disagree that "voting is the only way people like me can have a say about how the government runs things" (54 percent disagree versus 37 percent, RoNA).

One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.

Blaming public Christians for being 'too political' is like blaming Noah's ark for being 'too wet