Quotes About Engagement

Change will not take place without political participation.

As is the Vermont way, our trips were pretty low-key. No entourage. No advance people. No communications director. No security. Just Phil and me flying in coach, renting cars, and showing up for meetings—trying to get a sense of the potential support that might exist.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.

unhappily, my wife is expecting me in connection with a fish

E voi, imparate che occorre vedere e non guardare in aria; occorre agire e non parlare. Questo mostro stava, una volta, per governare il mondo! Il popolo lo spensero, ma ora non cantiamo vittoria troppo presto: il grembo da cui nacque è ancora fecondo.

I sense a space around him. He has a manner of eyeing people, even if he's standing face to face, as though he sees them from a distance.

far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

Cecelia Rose, she said, reaching for my hand, "far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

Proficiency is not benevolence. There is an art to being present.

Make your readers the agents of empathy.

My mother is always eager to talk when I come over, as if she were a famous actress and I am Diane Sawyer.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

As a side benefit, this cognitive shift to a different-from-usual mode of thinking results in a marvelous state of being, a highly focused, singularly attentive, deeply engaging, wordless, timeless, productive, and mentally restorative state.

I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dull as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.

non–love 'em leaders are more apt to ignore their employees, tell them what to do and when to do it, expect obedience, fail to respect them, thank them, challenge them, care about them. Ultimately, they believe the love 'em approach is not part of their job.

It's easy. Treat employees fairly and respectfully. Listen to them. Help them get what they want and need. Thank them. Challenge and develop them. Care about them, and you will engage and retain them.

You can have the best technology, you can have the best business model, but if the storytelling isn't amazing, it won't matter. Nobody will watch.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.