Quotes About Engagement

Except in dealing with commonplaces and catch phrases one has to assimilate, imaginatively, something of another's experience in order to tell him intelligently of one's own experience.

Experience in the degree in which it is experience is heightened vitality. Instead of signifying being shut up within one's own private feelings and sensations, it signifies active and alert commerce with the world; at its height it signifies complete interpenetration of self and the world of objects and events.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely parable, this morning, Rabbi,' Jesus would have failed utterly.

We began to circle each other, looking for a tsuki, a gap in concentration, that would permit an attack.

life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

I truly believe that if we are to have any voice in the community we need to first love the community. We need to show them that we care.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

Always be involved in your children's lives. Life gets hectic but we have to find a way to always stay connected and let our kids know that they are loved.

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.

Turn off the AM Radio and get invited to your own life.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.