Quotes About Engagement

At Sundance, Robert Redford begins meetings by saying, "I am inviting you to influence me. I want to be different when this meeting is over.

Unreal conversations are expensive, for the individual and the organization.

I talk about the purposes of fierce conversations. Interrogate reality. Provoke learning. Tackle tough challenges. Enrich relationships.

Yes, the conversation is the relationship. One conversation at a time, you are building, destroying, or flatlining your relationships.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Look, what I want is to be fully present in my life - to be really where you are, contemporary with yourself in your life, giving full attention to the world, which includes you. You are not the world, the world is not identical to you, but you're in it and paying attention to it. That's what a writer does - a writer pays attention to the world.

The story must strike a nerve—in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.

Photography has become one of the principal devices for experiencing something, for giving an appearance of participation.

Fotografiar es esencialmente un acto de no intervención. La persona que interviene no puede registrar; la persona que registra no puede intervenir.

Do stuff, be clenched, curious, not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention, it's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality, it connects you with others. It makes you eager, stay eager.

They just started throwing these canisters. One of them hit me so I lobbed it back." "Nothing at all would have hit you if you'd been minding your business." "And nothing will change if nobody takes action against injustice. Remember when you and Mama took me to hear Dr. King speak? Remember what he said? 'We die when we refuse to stand up for justice.

What's it going to take to shut you up? she asked. He spread his arms, palms out, and surrendered. Give me something else to do with my mouth.

she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply.

I've never understood tourism. Where is the value in standing by and watching others live their lives?

I remember she told me she could either spend her time working on a scrapbook about her life, or actually living her life. And she chose to live her life.

He had vowed then to find a life that meant something, rather than waiting around for life to find him.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back.

One of them is married and another is engaged and the third cannot make up her mind.

Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.