Quotes About Engagement

Both contemplation and action are necessary to human flourishing. The

La democracia solo puede triunfar si prosperan instituciones intermedias, como las Iglesias.

seeing is only the first step. Think about what you see. Get together with others to talk about what you are all seeing. Analyze the facts and discern how your faith and your moral convictions should be applied concretely to the situation.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

anyone ...on the scene...

When we believe we are not where we need to be for spiritual growth, we relegate our daily life to a secondary tier. We energetically pull out of our spiritual life and wait for the appropriate secluded moment in order to fully engage.

El desenlace dependerá de la amplitud de las reservas democráticas depositadas en la ciudadanía y en los partidos de oposición.

Getting everyone to set their expectations on how they will work together and consciously think about what it will take to create a high-performing team will yield huge dividends. To build team trust, make sure you talk about it. Personally

As accountability deepens and people move Above The Line within the organization, a shift occurs from "tell me what to do," to "here is what I am going to do, what do you think?"—a truly profound and empowering approach to getting results.

from the willingness of an organization's people to embrace full accountability for the results they seek.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

Experience has taught us that it is not enough to call oneself anti-capitalist if one really means to work to get rid of capitalism. Anyone may term himself anti-capitalist, but this "refusal" does not commit him to anything.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

people don't respond well to being told what they must do.

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.