Quotes About Engagement

She glanced over her shoulder, pinning the hapless patrolman on a needle-pointed gaze, wondering which of her notories occupied his attention.

I'm flattered to find out I'm a topic of conversation anywhere. I'm a tugboat engineer.

I don't engage in murdering sentients for commerce," I said. "Case closed." "You're programmed not to," she admitted. "That's not ethics. I want to know the real you." There was a pause while she examined her fingernails. "Unless you're afraid of what you'll learn.

Conversation was more interesting than one man droning on and on. It held the audience better. And Danilaw would have used puppets if he thought it would get his cabinet to pay attention.

She stroked her chin with a thumb and a forefinger. No wonder people were staring; the effect was distracting.

Breath held, I will her to speak without making me ask for it, but Riel plays this game better than I do.

She catches my gaze when I would have turned away.

The way to tame a wild thing is not to pursue it, but to make it pursue you. This is the way Merlins have always been brought to heel.

It did not take a great deal of native genius for Cathoair to figure out that they wanted something from him.

It was no other than he had expected, but he could play out the game.

If I could see her, she could probably see me. If she was looking, and maybe even if she wasn't. And I expected her to be looking.

I see a lot of people who are addicted to learning. What they need is a healthy dose of doing!

The iPhone mind-wandering study showed that when people are not thinking about what they're doing, they're just not as happy as when they're engaged. As

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.

What do you want me to say?" "I wish you would say something. Our life goes by without any comment.

With its growing economic and political power, China increasingly takes advantage of the political and economic openness of other countries while not providing these countries with the same opportunities to engage within China.

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'".

many educators today recognize that the body, heart, and mind are all involved in learning.

Whether the class is large or small, lecture or seminar, onsite or online, it can be a challenge to get students to engage. Whether we are simply attempting to get students to show up or take out their ear buds, or alternately, trying to challenge students to use higher-order thinking, we are all facing the same question:

If you're going to sleep through lectures and skip the readings, it's rude to do it from the front row. I'm at least a thoughtful reprobate.

The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a framework on top of mystery because we need someplace to live, some manner of surviving nature's fury and our mundane daily needs.

trying to peddle its pots and pans at the door of this house.