Quotes About Engagement

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

The best game to play, he thought, is the game you don't realize you are playing.

No se puede escribir una novela o componer una canción, no se puede acordar una adquisición o ampliar una oferta sin una completa dedicación a la tarea que se tiene entre manos.

El mejor juego es aquel en el que no te das cuenta de que estás jugando»

una locura con un inconfundible toque de inteligencia, porque provocará que me sume a ella.»

Abolir la barrera entre el lector y el personaje: he ahí la fuerza de una novela.

El mejor juego es aquel en el que no te das cuenta de que estas jugando.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Take a bite out of crime

When people say, 'I don't get art' … that means art is working.

A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page.

Work is easier when its just work; it's much harder when you actually care.

There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.

I wondered how long an adult could talk to a kid without using the word "but." About forty seconds'd be the record for most of them and that's on a good day.

Just because school's boring so much of the time, that doesn't mean kids don't want to learn.

some men run out of stories, of conversation, in no time at all. Either so little has happened to them or, more likely, they are incapable of understanding or retaining what has happened to them, and so they soon find themselves with nothing to say. Such a man makes a terrible companion.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

This tire, represents stewardship. We are all stewards who make contact with the world in every kind of situation.

There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.