Quotes About Engagement

That's not my problem" is possibly the worst thing people can think

The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play.

even on the shuttle bus to and from the convention center.

They too devoted a full day to research presentations.

The discussions were sparsely attended and mostly went over my head:

In the seats around us, it was much the same.

Benzel had a way of looking at people that let them know he was really looking at them. He was several inches taller than my parents, but he made sure to sit at eye level. He turned his seat away from the computer and planted himself directly in front of them. He did not twitch or fidget or even react when my father talked. He had that midwesterner's habit of waiting a beat after people have spoken before speaking himself, in order to see if they are really done.

and loss of focus.

people who don't know one another's names don't work together nearly as well as those who do.

The successful M & M presentation inevitably involves a certain elision of detail and a lot of passive verbs.

Patients ask questions, look up information on the Internet, seek second opinions. And they decide.

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here.

When we talked about getting together

The job of any doctor, Bludau later told me, is to support quality of life, by which he meant two things: as much freedom from the ravages of diseases as possible and the retention of enough function for active engagement in the world.

Although it had attracted wide interest across the country and had grown rapidly

Studdert and I both turned to her father to see what he might have to say.

How are you practicing what you preach—whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness. When I develop that sense of awareness, I develop, by extension, a sense concerning you. That does not dictate why my relationship is with you. I may have to fight you, but as soon as I am aware of you, I must relate to you. I must take you in. This is engagement. It is a prerequisite to any kind of love, and it is difficult and necessary.

handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows sleep or pee or roll around on top of other dogs. This one ignored us its window-mates and was instead sitting with its nose pressed against the glass, looking at us with an extremely serious little expression on its face. An expression that seemed to me to be saying, I am a sacred cow. Get out your wallet.

Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.

Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.

I mean, handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

By engaging with the person you're with. Which means, not thinking while they're speaking and not forming your answer as they are in the middle of asking the question. Engaging with the person means following carefully what they say, going for the full ride of their dialogue. So that you don't skip over a nuance by mistake. This is what'll keep you from zoning out, avoiding eye contact, looking at the wall like a freak, or sweating too much.