Quotes About Engagement

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

We can no longer afford to ignore the work of others and to plan our missions as though other missions did not exist.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.

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We are able to hear only what we're ready to take in. As productivity guru David Alan points out - information is always available, but WE are not always available to the information.

If in doubt about what to do in a place, just start walking through your new environment. Walk until your day becomes interesting—even if this means wandering out of town and strolling the countryside. Eventually you'll see a scene or meet a person that makes your walk worthwhile. If you get "lost" in the process, just take a bus or taxi to a local landmark and find your way back to your hotel from there.

The traveler was active, he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience," Daniel Boorstin opined in 1961. "The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.

In this way, "seeing" as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity.

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Absorption, being caught up in, wholly involved, and so on, are used commonly to describe the state of the artist or scientist when creating or even the child at play. By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.

To begin consciously searching into the world of mental illness is to see it snap into focus before your eyes. It is everywhere. It has been hiding in plain sight, awaiting notice. Its camouflage is little more than the human instinct to reject engagement with the pitiable, the fearsome, the unspeakable—and to close our eyes to the moral obligations that those states of being demand of us.

Well, say, this beats croquet. There's more go about it!

The "captain" says that when I came to engage passage in the Quaker City I "seemed to be full of whiskey, or something," and filled his office with the "fumes of bad whiskey" . . . [F]or a ceaseless, tireless, forty-year public advocate of total abstinence the "captain" is a mighty good judge of whiskey at second-hand.28

Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple. Now whether or not these things have one iota to do with your story doesn't concern the reader.

Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple.