Quotes About Engagement

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

The time to build a network is always before you need one.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.

I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.

Fight today's war today. Leave tomorrow's war until tomorrow.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

A new kind of American—a new kind of thinker and a new kind of citizen—needs to arise now. And quickly. We the People, We the Problem For too many decades, Americans have been chronically distracted by less important things, not bothering to engage in serious self-examination.

political disengagement no longer an option for any serious person.

Conversation, like good reading, nourishes.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention, you can say something they might remember

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. In

Make it simple. Increase contact. Remove barriers.