Quotes About Engagement

Talking to other people will help build your personal network, and you may surprise yourself by finding solutions to other, unrelated problems along the way.

Never run on auto-pilot. Constantly be thinking, critiquing your work in real time.

A large part of our day is spent communicating, so we need to do it well.

The more effective that communication, the more influential you become.

Make what you're saying relevant in time, as well as in content. Sometimes all it takes is the simple question Is this a good time to talk about...?

There's one technique that you must use if you want people to listen to you: listen to them.

Unless you work in a vacuum, you need to be able to communicate. The more effective that communication, the more influential you become.

The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran's Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and across the width of Africa. That the ongoing enterprise may someday end—that U.S. troops will finally depart—appears so unlikely as to make the prospect unworthy of discussion. Like the war on drugs or the war on poverty, the War for the Greater Middle East has become a permanent fixture in American life and is accepted as such.

When we practise "dog awareness", we notice that our mind is usually somewhere else. Try eating a meal and tasting every mouthful. Talk to a friend and hear every word. Listen to a song and hear every note. Take a walk and see every tree. Gradually we get better at

You get motivated by doing things, not thinking about them.

It is always easier to be engaged with the Christianity of the past or the future than to be faithful in the Christianity of today.

The cliche about autism is that the syndrome impedes the ability to love, and I began this research interested in how much a parent could contrive to love a child who could not return the affection. Autistic children often seem to inhabit a world on which external cues have limited impact; they may seem to be neither comforted by nor engaged with their parents are not motivated to gratify them.

Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.

News you can't read calmly, don't read at all!

In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

Because technology is devoted primarily to making our lives easier, it discourages us from disciplines, especially ones that involve disentangling ourselves from technology itself.

And when we do put on a video or otherwise fire up a screen for a purpose, we'll follow another principle: never entertain your children with anything you find unsatisfying, just like you shouldn't feed your children anything you don't enjoy eating yourself. Feed them with food that is both tasty and nutritious—and entertain them with movies, books, and stories that are both tasty and nutritious too.

We love the way screens can, almost magically, absorb our children's attention and give us a few moments of quiet in the car or before dinner.

I've come to the conclusion that the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

Because make no mistake: the videos we put on for our kids—or the video games we pull up on our phones in our own moments of boredom—are designed, unconsciously or consciously, to produce a bewitching effect. And that effect is achieved by filling a screen with a level of vividness and velocity that does not exist in the real world—or only very rarely. Because it is rare, we instinctively respond to it, and indeed take delight in it.

the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

most conversations take at least seven minutes to really begin.1 Up until that point, we are able to rely on our usual repertoire of topics—the weather, routine reports about our day, minimal and predictable chitchat. But around seven minutes, there is almost always a point where someone takes a risk—or could take a risk. The risk may be silence; it may be an unexpected question or observation; it may be an expression of a deeper or different emotion than we usually allow.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.