Quotes About Engagement

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

A great many of the Army officers were very fine in the way that they took care of their men. But there were certain very glaring instances of the opposite condition, and especially among these theorists, these men who were looking upon this whole thing as, perhaps, one looks upon a game of chess, or a game of football, and who were removed from actual contact with the troops.

Ensuring that we have a well-informed public citizenry is important for a well-functioning democracy, and that in turn requires an active and diverse media.

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

Why did they continue to enter Lodges until they had the rule of them? There must have been something more in their association, for they had their clubs, societies, and learned fellowships.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

The four Ps (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion) have been updated with a new model: the six C's of Content, Commerce, Community, Context, Customization, and Conversation.

It's time to set our sights on the marketing funnel, aka, AIDA. AIDA stands for Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. (p.3)

Avinash Kaushik refers to much of media communications as "faith-based initiatives." In other words, they are often futile attempts to bridge the vast chasm between the two ends of the funnel - exposure and conversion... (p. 5)

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own

We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.

Work is living for me. The point is whether we live in our work.

A teacher should start from a young person's own present interest, she felt, and lead them into a wider and deeper understanding of the world into which they were going.

I wish for a front porch. I am not alone. In our time people have a hunger for a significant "median space." This may arise from the recent history of minimizing the importance of these relationships. Median spaces are the spaces that include our social and personal connections.

It is simply not true that people who belong only in public space are "on the fringe." Nor is it true that we somehow need to get them to move "closer" to get them to be committed.

To effectively create a front porch experience, there cannot be any expectations that the group

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.

You learn more by trying than by watching," Brackenfur replied.

Sandstorm had drawn a few paces ahead, and had paused at the foot of a tree to sniff the bark. "Come and look at this," she called, beckoning with her tail.

Did he have to sit here, being solemn and serious with Kestrelflight, Mothwing, and Willowshine, just because he was a medicine-cat apprentice? If he was going to be an apprentice longer than any other cat, couldn't he at least have fun?