Quotes About Engagement

I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees.

It is of vast consequence how ministers discharge their office, and conduct themselves towards their people in the work of the ministry, and in affairs appertaining to it. 'Tis also a matter of vast importance, how a people receive and entertain a faithful minister of Christ, and what improvement they make of his ministry.

The only thing about school he seemed to like was the audience it provided.

You're either reading a book or you're not.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

changing an institution's environment to increase the sense of control among its workers, students, patients, or other users was one of the most effective possible ways to increase their sense of engagement, energy, and happiness.

Words of wisdom, the meaning of life, p e r h a p s even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of these may wash over us every day, but they can do little for us unless we savor them, engage with them, question them, improve them, and connect them to our lives

singing in choruses, performing in marching bands, listening to sermons, attending political rallies, and meditating. Most of my students have experienced the switch at least once, although only a few had a life-changing experience. More commonly, the effects fade away within a few hours or days.

transformational leadership)44 generates more social capital—the bonds of trust that help employees get more work done at a lower cost than employees at other firms. Hivish employees work harder, have more fun, and are less likely to quit or to sue the company.

leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership.45 Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand. They point out that leadership is not even the more interesting hand; it's no puzzle to understand why people want to lead. The real puzzle is why people are willing to follow.

Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

we face the paradox of abundance: Quantity undermines the quality of our engagement. With such a vast and wonderful library spread out before us, we often skim books or read just the reviews. We might already have encountered the Greatest Idea, the insight that would have transformed us had we savored it, taken it to heart, and worked it into our lives.

The consequences of a generation unable or disinclined to engage with ideas that make them uncomfortable are dire for society

Putnam and Campbell put their findings bluntly: By many different measures religiously observant Americans are better neighbors and better citizens than secular Americans—they are more generous with their time and money, especially in helping the needy, and they are more active in community life.60

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."4

The keys to flow: There's a clear challenge that fully engages your attention; you have the skills to meet the challenge; and you get immediate feedback about how you are doing at each step (the progress principle). You get flash after flash of positive feeling with each turn negotiated, each high note correctly sung, or each brushstroke that falls into the right place.

And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic, which speaks not to the affections, will ever engage him to embrace sounder principles.49

If you're not engaged and active in a learning situation, you probably won't get much out of it, just as Serge's example illustrates. Get the most out of your practice by coming to lessons—or any learning situation—with specific goals in mind. One of the most powerful things you can learn from a teacher is how to practice. Some teachers

what we just saw between Fellinger

ham-and-eggs breakfast, the chicken's involved but the pig's committed.

once a week and doesn't do much when he is there.

This is how you have adventures. You find cool things and you do them ... you don't just read books about them!

to gain an understanding of a world that you know little about, you must encounter it firsthand

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.