Quotes About Engagement

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

What can we do?" It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Even though your film is in the can, the real work begins after...

The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm

Your goal should be to keep the temperature within what we call the productive zone of disequilibrium (PZD): enough heat generated by your intervention to gain attention, engagement, and forward motion, but not so much that the organization (or your part of it) explodes.

you cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.

In the effort to protect yourself, you risk numbing yourself to the world in which you are embedded.

Great athletes can at once play the game and observe it as a whole.

When a group of friends have enjoyed fine conversation together, you will find that uddenly omething extraordinary happen . A they are peaking, it' a if a park ignite , pa ing from one peaker to another, and a it travel , it gather trength, building into a warm and illuminating flame of mutual under tanding which none of them could have achieved alone. SOCRATES, IN PLATO'S "CRITIAS

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

such exchanges should be carried on with caution.

historians have largely ignored the opportunity for a new dialogue, and anthropologists have largely ceased to offer it.

Any political engagement that claims to be Christian must be concerned with the full range of things that the Bible says God cares about.

We are evangelical Christians, pleading with other Christians, especially evangelicals, to allow biblical principles to shape all our political activity.

many attribute their turning away from Christianity to what they consider immoral, fundamentally wrong, political engagement by Christians, especially evangelical Christians.

their conclusion that politics was the way to stay relevant is today recognized as a mistake, a leading cause of both a decline in membership and, ironically, in loss of relevance.

The problem with making a deal with Trump wasn't that evangelicals shouldn't engage in politics. The problem was who they made a deal with, and the way in which they justified that deal.

Evangelical Christians need another model for cultural and political engagement, and one of the best I am aware of has been articulated by the artist Makoto Fujimura, who speaks about "culture care" instead of "culture war.

To see a spiderweb was a matter of awareness. You noticed that you shared a space with the creature. You had a choice to leave it alone, destroy it, or engage with it.

Don't just crit there siticising.

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

For better or for worse, police officers spend most of their time serving as medics, mediators, and monitors.

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