Quotes About Engagement

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.

One must take the world as one finds it.

Herkes bir a??zdan konuÅŸmaya baÅŸlam??t?, kimse kar??s?ndakinin ona söylediÄŸi ÅŸeye yan?t vermeye çal??m?yor, sadece kendi düÅŸünceleriyle ilgileniyordu.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.

Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;

The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.

Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it.

The two chief weapons which parties use in order to obtain success are the newspapers and public associations.

La democrazia è il potere di un popolo informato.

he often takes an interest in their lot by a last stretch of egotism.

BirleÅŸik Devletler'de vatandan bahsedildiÄŸini duydum. Halkta gerçek vatanseverlikle kar??laÅŸt?m, halk? yönetenler aras?nda ise bunu çoÄŸu zaman boÅŸuna arad?m.

The habit of inattention must be considered as the greatest bane of the democratic character

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.