Quotes About Engagement

Sprinters typically look powerful, bursting with energy and eager to push themselves to their limits. The explanation is simple. No matter how intense the demand they face, the finish line is clearly visible 100 or 200 meters down the track. We, too, must learn to live our own lives as a series of sprints—fully engaging for periods of time, and then fully disengaging and seeking renewal before jumping back into the fray to face whatever challenges confront us.

Full engagement requires drawing on four separate but related sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Positive energy rituals—highly specific routines for managing energy—are the key to full engagement and sustained high performance.

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.

Barriers to full engagement: Negative habits that block, distort, waste, diminish, deplete and contaminate stored energy.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen ... those who watch things happen ... and those who wonder what happened.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much will fail for sure.

More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

thinking divorced from action lacks productivity

She looked at him and smiled. She placed her hand upon his shoulder. He took her right hand in his left and placed his other at her waist, looking at her as if she were an unexploded bomb. They began to dance.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

She's the kind of person who looks at you when you're talking and asks you questions as if she really cares.

I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.

There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.