Quotes About Engagement

An American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

meditation elevates a person's base level of focus. By focus, I mean the ability to attend to what's relevant in a given situation.

We are not interested in dialogue for the sake of dialogue.

Because there is a problem that exists, the doors for communication between the two nations should not be closed. Japan always keeps our door for communication open. I'd like China to take the same attitude.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Unless nominees are chosen democratically, with the widest possible participation in the process, nothing else really matters.

I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it.

When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.

You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it. In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.

But if you make your best effort just to continue your practice with your whole mind and body, without gaining ideas, then whatever you do will be true practice.

when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely... You should burn yourself completely.

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.

When you do something, just to do it should be your purpose.

If you are not concerned about what you do, you will not say so. When you sit, you will sit. When you eat, you will eat. That is all. If you say, "It doesn't matter," it means that you are making some excuse to do something in your own way with your small mind.

When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.

In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.

Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough.

People do not come to work to do a bad job. Safety in complex systems is not a result of getting rid of people, of reducing their degrees of freedom. Safety in complex systems is created by people through practice—at all levels of an organization.

We are amazed at how little organizations recognize and value the opinion of their workforce about operational and production issues.

We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.