Quotes About Engagement

When was the last time … … you lost track of time? … you instinctively volunteered for something? … someone had to tear you away from what you were doing? … you felt completely in control of what you were doing? … you surprised yourself by how well you did? … you were singled out for praise? … you were the only person to notice something?

You will have your own examples of a work environment that seems to be firing on all cylinders. It will be a place where performance levels are consistently high, where turnover levels are low, and where a growing number of loyal customers join the fold every day.

As we read the Bible, we are not only to bring our critical intelligence with us, but also to listen.

The result: the monarchical model of biblical authority is replaced by a dialogical model of biblical authority. In other words, the biblical canon names the primary collection of ancient documents with which Christians are to be in a continuing dialogue.

Freedom is participation in power.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read.

It's always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven't heard it. Then you don't have to answer.

But if its a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone.

No reply is in itself a reply.

How could a person be caught that way, in an instant, by a glance, the lift of an eyebrow, the curve of an arm? But he was.

I hardly hear them any more because I hardly listen.

Who are you, my reader? And when are you? Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps fifty years from now, perhaps never.

It's literature. It's all books. There are good books and bad books. Literary fiction can be bad, and so can sci-fi. Sci-fi can be wonderful and so can literary fiction. As long as it's a good book, who cares? Hold my attention; that's all I ask. Make me believe.

Ignorieren ist nicht das gleiche wie Ignoranz, man muß etwas dazu tun.

Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.

no matter what I do there's something hilarious about it. He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it.

Hacer caso omiso no es lo mismo que ignorar, hay que esforzarse para ello.

She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.

The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to turn the pages.

Once they respond to my beckoning I have them forever," she said as Swan rested her tiny head in the palm of Lynne's hand.

historiadores diplomáticos e historiadores militares se quejan del poco interés que suscitan sus campos de estudio y sus trabajos.

dutifully stepped forward with her hand extended. "Hello, I'm Sigrid Harald and you are—?" "Mavis Trogden," the woman said, beaming. "Mavis Rainey, that was. Your