Quotes About Engagement

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

Dubliners talk to each other very easily. We talk as though getting back to it, after some interruption.

During the summers, she worked with the fit-ups.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Talk is essential, talk stimulates, arguments clarify, speculations which are thrown out to the winds may fall like seed to spring up with a crop of perceptions.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

She was eager to stoop to his level.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

Oscar grabbed on to the words and held them.

Healthy people live with their world.

not all situations are appropriate for truthseeking, nor are all people interested in the pursuit.

If you want to pick a role model for designing a group's practical rules of engagement, you can't do better than Merton. To start, he coined the phrase "role model," along with "self-fulfilling prophecy," "reference group," "unintended consequences," and "focus group." He founded the science of sociology and was the first sociologist awarded the National Medal of Science.

Terms that express likelihoods mean very different things to different people. Using ambiguous terms can lead to confusion and miscommunication with people you want to engage for help. Being more precise, by expressing probabilities as percentages, makes it more likely you'll uncover information that can correct inaccuracies in your beliefs and broaden your knowledge.

Il s'agissait d'user le temps, de tromper l'ennui par toutes sortes d'activités sans réelle importance, dont la lecture.

Positive Emotional Attractor

The difference such minimal instruction made in participants' ability to recall information, they noted, was "striking": students who incorporated movement into their learning strategy remembered 76 percent of the material, while those who engaged in "deliberate memorization" recalled only 37 percent.

In a related vein, the third principle: whenever possible, we should seek to productively alter our own state when engaging in mental labor.

Parents and teachers often believe they have to get kids to stop moving around before they can focus and get down to work, Schweitzer notes; a more constructive approach would be to allow kids to move around so that they can focus.