Quotes About Engagement

I am all for teachers who can make their subjects interesting, who can make them live.

Exhibitions are precisely what we shouldn't trust, because they are so seductive. We go into a room that we can only walk through in a certain way, and there's a certain lighting scheme, and it might smell a certain way. Whereas when we read something on a blog, we do that in our own home, in the conditions that we have chosen, and we can determine how our body is situated. We just can't do those things in an exhibition.

Observe the world around you - everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

Decisions are made by those who show up

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

Is this thing on?

sometimes people overdose on the headlines, which is generally not a good idea, we can't do much about the catastrophes of the world, so why be depressed by learning about it all the time ? Check the news every couple of weeks maybe, but there's no point wasting your time learning about some famine in Africa if you're not immediately doing something about it, it just makes you feel dismal. "Medical Benefits of the Sunnah, 1:20:58

C'est en s'engageant dans l'action que l'on bat la peur.

Baz? kitaplardan hiç ayr?lmad?m çünkü beni hiç s?kmad?lar.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator....We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

Mary and Jeb were an item from the time they were both in knickers. Even gave her a ring. Then this month my brother ditches her just like that. I'm still mad.

to be part of the fabric instead of a thread torn from the whole.

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it