Quotes About Engagement

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: 'Are you in love? What are you reading?

look everyone in the eye, prove that you're listening, really listening to what they say, and that you value them and the time they are spending to talk with you.

shut me up and talk to me!

Ik nodig je uit voor een viergangenalibi.

There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.

True thinking is rare—just like true listening.

Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering. Then you have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged. That is where there is something new to master and some way that you can be improved. That is where meaning is to be found.

Every game has rules... The first of these rules is that the game is important. If it wasn't important, you wouldn't be playing it.

Stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: 'Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker's satisfaction.'" I have found this technique very useful, in my private life and in my practice. I routinely summarize what people have said to me, and ask them if I have understood properly.

the best way to learn about something is to talk about it

When you are fighting against something than there's something else you are not doing.

When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening. Listening is paying attention. It's amazing what people will tell you if you listen.

It's also unlikely that you're playing only one game. You have a career and friends and family members and personal projects and artistic endeavors and athletic pursuits.

We eternally inhabit order, surrounded by chaos. We eternally occupy known territory, surrounded by the unknown. We experience meaningful engagement when we mediate appropriately between them.

There is another, closely allied form of conversation, where neither speaker is listening in the least to the other. Instead, each is using the time occupied by the current speaker to conjure up what he or she will say next, which will often be something off-topic, because the person anxiously waiting to speak has not been listening.

Women are often intent on formulating the problem when they are discussing something, and they need to be listened to—even questioned—to help ensure clarity in the formulation. Then, whatever problem is left, if any, can be helpfully solved. (It should also be noted first that too-early problem-solving may also merely indicate a desire to escape from the effort of the problem-formulating conversation.)

Pode ser avassalador abrirmo-nos à beleza do mundo sobre a qual, em adultos, aplicámos uma demão de simplicidade. Mas, se não fizermos isso – por exemplo, se não estivermos plenamente envolvidos ao passear com um filho –, perdemos a noção da grandeza e do espanto que o mundo sem amarras produz constantemente e reduzimos as nossas vidas à necessidade básica.

A properly socialized three-year-old is polite and engaging. She's also no pushover. She evokes interest from other children and appreciation from adults. She exists in a world where other kids welcome her and compete for her attention, and where adults are happy to see her, instead of hiding behind false smiles. She will be introduced to the world by people who are pleased to do so.