Quotes About Engagement

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

True listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action

The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

Presidents from Roosevelt to Obama have sought to help allies protect themselves and to engage in collective defense against common dangers. We did this not in a spirit of charity but because we had learned the hard way that problems abroad, if unaddressed, could, before long, imperil us.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

In reading we must become creators.

Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see?" Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave. "Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso many y pplleasanntt thinggss tto llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness.

We want them to see their home planet, Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then. Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see? Again Mrs. Which's voice reverberated through the cave. There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.

I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done.

Too often, we think of mysticism as a way to abandon the world. But the greatest practitioners of mystical spirituality know that it actually moves us back into the world.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

caterers, no, people

Things will always be desperate while old people don't make any move to change them,' Clio said.

The Slow movement can get us back in touch with what it means to carry out scholarly work. Instead of "I am producing ...," we might say to ourselves and others, "I am contemplating ...," or "I am conversing with ..." or even "I am in joyful pursuit of ...

Start making yourself at home in your life as it is.

Give the present the gift of your full attention.

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head - even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you're really like to be.

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

concerted cultivation. He gets taken to museums and gets enrolled in special programs and goes to summer camp, where he takes classes. When he's bored at home, there are plenty of books to read, and his parents see it as their responsibility to keep him actively engaged in the world around him. It's not hard to see how Alex would get better at reading and math over the summer.

Two people may arrive at a conversation with very different conversational patterns. But almost instantly they reach a common ground.