Quotes About Engagement

I wouldn't want to take a job that I got tied into for six years - that just doesn't interest me.

These are important markers in our engagement with South East Asia, in enhancing our strategic ties with ASEAN across 3 Cs. These 3 Cs are commerce, connectivity, and culture.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.

I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

It's my job, it's my role, it's my mission, it's my dream to have everyone who has Michigan ties - whether you went to college in Michigan, whether you grew up in Michigan, if you've ever heard of the state of Michigan - to do what you can to influence the students of the Detroit metropolitan area.

I am a personal advocate of strong ties between India and Israel, so I am very happy to see that our relations are progressing so well in all fields of our engagement.

The U.S. should not continue to ignore Latin America. Our nation shares regional and cultural ties with these neighboring countries.

When I'm watching any game, I watch the tight end.

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

Keep the body in such a way that it is not longing to avoid or escape life. Maintain it in such a way that it is longing to come awake.

Have you come into this world to experience life or to think about it?

If you want to become life sensitive, a simple process that you do is this: make whatever you think and whatever you feel less important. Try and see for one day. Suddenly you will feel the breeze, the rain, the flowers and the people, everything in a completely different way. Suddenly the life in you becomes much more active and alive for your experience.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

The ivory tower analogy is no joke – is it any coincidence that top management is often on the top floor? That's physically about as far away from customers as you can get.

Pretend you are a customer of your own company

standing in customers' shoes and seeing the world from their perspective is better than just relying on their feedback or reaction.

In fact, the opposite of work isn't play - it's idleness. That's

Fun is not a form of entertainment, it's an integral part of being good at what you do at work. —Daniel H. Pink, Free Agent Nation, 2002

When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

The journey of the bodhisattva warrior starts with the basic attitude of enlarging our motivation to include the welfare of others. This is a simple response to this dark age. Let's begin right now by engaging love and compassion however we can—not tomorrow, but today.

Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

if you find something or somebody a bore, the fault lies in you.