Quotes About Engagement

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

Keep all your passions in your life.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

fan or a fan of regular TV shows, or even if you aren't

Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.

If we weren't so dreamy and curious we could stay on track and never get distracted.

But because kids today have so little free time, and because they're always surrounded by media, they don't explore what's off the beaten path. They want their fun to be quick and easy. The art of being bored is lost." . . . There's no question that Klauber's findings are

Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen." His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named "flow." In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.

As far as I can see, many people who don't have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring. And

This is because the structure, novelty, and motivation associated with

the person with ADD seldom feels bored. This is because the millisecond he senses boredom, he swings into action and finds something new; he changes the channel.

Easy distractibility, trouble focusing attention, tendency to tune out or drift away in the middle of a page or a conversation, often coupled with an ability to hyperfocus at times.

For someone who has ADD, being bored is like being asphyxiated. It cannot be endured for more than a minute or so. When bored, the person with ADD feels compelled to do something immediately to bring the world back up to speed. Adrenaline