Quotes About Engagement

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

It's always better to be doing.

luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know.

Both of them often turned to gaze at Sabriel.

Quality time does not mean that we have to spend our together moments gazing into each other's eyes. It means that we are doing something together and that we are giving our full attention to the other person.

It takes time and the conscious choice to listen.

A central aspect to quality time is togetherness. I do not mean proximity... Togetherness has to do with focused attention.

Quality time means giving a child undivided attention. For a small child, it means sitting on the floor...)You must get down on the child's level if you eventually want to lead them to the adult world.

difference between a dating couple and a married couple? Dating couples look at each other and talk. Married couples sit there and gaze around the restaurant. You'd think they went there to eat!

we must choose our battles carefully. Some things are not worth fighting over, and some things are clearly not our battles.

For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. —Titus 1:10

Screentime that is not purposeful tends to be a waste of time and a negative influence.

Often it takes persistent love to reach out to others and include them.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting.

Research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

You can't just skip the boring parts. Of course I can skip the boring parts. How do you know they're boring if you don't read them? I can tell. Then you can't say you've read the whole play. I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Who knows? she said. Maybe you can't.

How can we inform, engage, and serve people who don't have kids in our schools?

facilitating creation and engagement of an online kind of civil society quite literally at their fingertips.

If we made such good use of animals, eating them, singing about them, drawing them, riding them, and dreaming about them, what do they get back from us?

And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should. As for Raoul, he saw nothing either; for, when he had Christine in front of him, nothing interested him that happened behind. Chapter

Ah, you wouldn't be bored with me! I have more than one trick up my sleeve, not counting card tricks. . . . But you'd have fun with me! There's no one like me. . . there's no like me, for example, when it come to ventriloquism.

He {Erik} filled Christine's mind through the terror with which he inspired her, but the dear child's heart belonged wholly to the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny. While they played about like an innocent engaged couple on the upper floors of the opera, to avoid the monster, they little suspected that someone was watching over them.

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

What do I most love to do? (I love it so much I can do it for long stretches of time without getting tired or bored.)