Quotes About Engagement

They are interested not in our solutions but in our answers.

chi vuol occuparsi di orologi deve avere Tempo ma non si deve annoiare

Ci si innamora così, cercando nella persona amata il punto a nessuno rivelato, che è dato in dono solo a chi scruta, ascolta con amore. Ci si innamora da vicino, ma non troppo, ci si innamora da un angolo acuto un poco in disparte in una stanza, presso una tavolata, seduto su un gradino mentre gli altri ballano

The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive.

When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another man's alienation. Readiness to become over-involved is a form of tyranny practiced by children, prima donnas and lords, placing feelings above moral rules that should have made society safe for interaction.

As a linguist suggests: " There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works (" Hello, do you hear me?"), to attract the attention of the interlocutor or to confirm his continued attention (" Are you listening?" or in Shakespearean diction, "Lend me your ears!"— and on the other end of the wire "Um-hum!").

what matters most is what is happening, with whom it is happening, how it is happening, when it is happening, how one feels about what is happening, and especially, what are the consequences of what is happening.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

Then ask everyone in the room to speak. When someone doesn't speak at the beginning of the retrospective, that person has tacit permission to remain silent for the rest of the session.

Hold it." Then say, "I want to hear what you have to say, and I can't when you're shouting. Can you tell us why without shouting?

Actually, Sara, I talk only about that which you talk about. Only when you ask a question is the information that I might offer of any value to you. All of those answers that are offered without a question having been asked are truly a waste of everyone's time. Neither student nor teacher has much fun in that. Sara

If one knows, one cares; if one does not care, one does not know.

Our partners do not belong to us; they are only on loan, with an option to renew—or not. Knowing that we can lose them does not have to undermine commitment; rather, it mandates an active engagement that long-term couples often lose. The realization that our loved ones are forever elusive should jolt us out of complacency, in the most positive sense.

I've got another reason for you to come." "Try me." Gelfand shot the empty beer bottle in the garbage can and tried to sound interested. "You got anything better to do?

These efforts could not be construed as selling, but they make sure that the right people know the Firm is there. That keeps the phones ringing.

one of my jobs at the start of an engagement was to search PDNet for anything that would shed light on our current project: comparable industries, comparable problems. Inevitably, any PDNet query produced a mountain of documents that I then had to wade through to find the few that might be relevant. Still, this long day's (and, as often as not, night's) work usually yielded something to point us in the right direction.

We also learned to communicate our interest through body language. When the interviewee was speaking, we leaned toward her slightly. When she completed a sentence, we nodded. And we always took notes. Even if the interviewee was babbling (and this happened often enough),

others will see McKinsey as an invading army to either flee or drive out, depending on their power in the organization. As one former McKinsey-ite put it, "It was a rare engagement when there wasn't at least one sector of the client organization that did not want us there and did not want us to come up with a real answer.

one of the greatest lessons that comes from meditation is that a relaxed curiosity about life and sleepwalking through it are two radically different choices

Running for the hills is not the way to go. We live in a time where there are actually fewer and fewer places left to run away to. Therefore, it's imperative to find ways to use your energy to dive into—not run from—existing paths of livelihood. A hip-hop mogul or an oil executive are powerful already. There's no reason they couldn't be powerfully selfless and compassionate as well.

The results we are looking for, unfortunately, often include stopping our thoughts altogether, or destroying unwanted emotions. One simple reason meditation is difficult to sustain is that the principal benefits of meditation are not short-term, and it is generally hard to convince ourselves to engage in anything that has mostly long-term effects. Our

With natural curiosity, the practice of mindfulness becomes effortless.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.