Quotes About Engagement

Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void.

Annie Wilkes was the perfect audience, a woman who loved stories without having the slightest interest in the mechanics of making them. She was the embodiment of that Victorian archetype, Constant Reader.

And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story … to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

And please don't sink into this woeful nonsense about not having time to read...The real culprit here is almost never your schedule. It is your boredom--your boredom with the books you think you are supposed to read. Find a book you want, a book that gives you real trembling excitement, a book that is hot in your hands, and you'll have time galore.

The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible.

As we begin to see where we have been absent from life, increasing possibilities audition for our approval.

A man ought to invest in knowledge because it is part of living in this world fully engaged and glorifying God. Yet our times also make it essential.

An audience will remember what it didn't expect to see (or read). From Action/ReAction: A unique and innovative technique for actors and the history of its origins...

One evening, after a Dharma talk at the Cambridge Zen Center, a student asked Seung Sahn Soen-sa, "What is love?" Soen-sa said, "I ask you: what is love?" The student was silent. Soen-sa said, "This is love." The student was still silent. Soen-sa said, "You ask me: I ask you. This is love.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Most believe that the key to influence is communication—getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response?

The reality is that most families are overmanaged and underled.

First, I would recommend that you not "see" this material as a book, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.

Se puede ser miembro activo de una Iglesia, pero inactivo en la práctica de su evangelio.

PC work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best part—their hearts and minds.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." ? Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about.

unifying, and the most exciting part.

One of the fundamental problems in organizations, including families, is that people are not committed to the determinations of other people for their lives. They simply don't buy into them.

If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon.