Quotes About Engagement

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

People who aren't interested in anything are people who can't stop protecting their enthusiasm.

It is in a total state of involvement that one finds liberation from time.

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The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. This is accomplished only when the narrative moves steadily ahead, not when it comes to a weary standstill, overloaded with every item uncovered in the research.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Even his own speeches bored him.

That was the Battle of Mons. As the opening British engagement of what was to become the Great War, it became endowed in retrospect with every quality of greatness and was given a place in the British pantheon equal to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it. All its men were valorous and all its dead heroes.

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

The danger in complacency is that it causes the possessor to ignore as unimportant the local factors and conditions that govern other people with whom it deals.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

had said, "The greatest contribution Vietnam is making … is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without arousing the public ire.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Growing up in a military family perhaps cultivates a certain kind of imagination that makes it easier to engage in the subject of war.

Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.

When you just dump information onto your audience, you are not really making an impact on their hearts and minds. But, when you start telling a story, a magic thing happens: They instantly give you their full attention.

you make me feel intelligent, especially when you talk

to a person zoning out- "your display is on screen saver

Q. How does flirting work? A. The simplest and least embarrassing way to flirt is just to make eye contact with that special someone. Then hold the look for around two seconds. (That's an eternity in flirt time!) Going too much longer turns it into a staring contest, which is sort of weird and NOT flirting anymore. While you're making eye contact, smile. Then look away. That's flirting!

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

No day passed that did not present an opportunity to become obsessed with a new area of concern.

Be mindful that the world that you want to live in and that you need to live in needs you to create it; it needs your input. The world needs to hear what you have to say. The last word has not been spoken.

You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.