Quotes About Engagement

Nothing made me happier than to hear from literally hundreds of listeners who would tell me how much the commentaries revealed about a subject they otherwise had never cared much for.

It only makes sense to have the people managing hundreds of millions of acres of land located near that land and accessible to those communities.

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

To have hundreds of people from every political and demographic group you can imagine coming out day after day to take part in the national health care debate is fantastic.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

Matrices act. They don't just sit there.

Never leave a message for someone you really want to reach. No, you keep phoning and phoning until someone picks up—out of anger or curiosity or fear—and then you blurt out whatever words will keep them on the line. I

You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

I hate people who start conversations with facts—what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.

She was the kind of person who'd read street signs aloud rather than suffer silence.

We were the two unlikeliest people to charm information out of someone. Stunted human beings who got awkward every time we tried to express ourselves.

I stared back—cows are the few animals that really seem to see you.

It was certainly easy making conversation with this woman. You didn't even have to know the native tongue.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it's not going to get you respect.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

Hadley to play the role of passive partner to his ambitions, but

Small places live on small talk, but sometimes the happenings can be too lean for everybody to get enough fat out of it to chew over.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Rather than the reflective theology of the scholar or classroom, his is a "task theology," the theologizing that takes place in the marketplace

when you join something, they expect you to do it. To"—he shuddered—"participate.

We grow through listening, aggressive listening: asking questions, watching intently what is happening around us, taking note of the good or ill consequences that befall people as a result of their choice making.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

It is infinitely harder to ask questions in such a way that the audience is led not to the answers (the province of the demagogue) but to new perceptions.

When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.