Quotes About Engagement

To be in the game, but not playing with the intent to win, is to be the enemy.

He was in a state of wonder most of the time, the way a young boy is--engaged by the most ordinary things as if they were great miracles.

John Chandler, who leads a Christian community in Austin, Texas, shared this: We've by far had the most success inviting people into our community life by inviting them to serve alongside us. As a matter of fact, that's about the only thing that's worked consistently as far as "official" church activities go.

It seems they are more open to responding to invitations than we are to making invitations.

Control in this context does not mean domineering others or dominating a conversation...Your framing should enthuse and captivate the audience rather than trying to convince them of your own notions or viewpoints."

Mindfulness is essential to frame control. It's crucial to just pay attention to your surroundings, thoughts, feelings, and responses to the situation or encounter in which you find yourself."

Posting the behind the scenes of your life creates top of the mind awareness.

Probably one of the often overlooked framing components is body language. The way a question is framed might depend on a variety of factors, including posture, mood, facial gestures, and grin."

I know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you -- they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

Okay, baby?" Riordan was walking toward me. I realized he was talking to me.

Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets ' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life. Too many of us live without fully engaging our minds, waiting for that moment when our real lives begin.

I found myself calculating less and feeling more

I wanted to show up. I wanted you to know, I will show up.

Someone in Dr. Morse's childhood must've told him that the polite thing to do to get by in the world (in his world) was to memorize one fact and one fact only about each of your colleague's family members, so that when you met that colleague, or met their family members, you could, by mentioning this fact, appear solicitous and engaged.

The average computer user of good faith who seeks regularly to read the news online now has to exercise the type of critical acumen that scholars of literature have always reserved for the analysis of texts: an intense engagement that seeks out secret meanings, hidden biases, hidden agendas. And what's more, our fictional average computer user of good faith who seeks regularly to read the news online has to do so even as the news reads him, or her, and modifies itself accordingly.

All who read us are read.

As Mark Twain famously quipped, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

It is difficult to walk, talk, eat, exercise, make love, or drive an automobile while reading.

He was a common man expanded into giant proportions; well acquainted with the people, he placed his hand on the beating pulse of the nation, judged of its disease and was ready with a remedy.