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Quotes About Engagement

So your first sentence should be very compelling by virtue of its short length and ease of reading. No long multisyllabic words. Keep it short, sweet and almost incomplete so that the reader has to read the next sentence.
~ Joseph Sugarman
Hareem was speaking with the
~ Joseph Wambaugh
A whiff of brine, a swank trestle adumbrant, Loading Only No Standing, 14th & 10th—this was Tetration's NY HQ. I went through the doors and stood facing anything but the street, until a Tetbot treaded over to make inquiries. I stood behind a rubberplant. The Tetbot reversed and treaded after me. It was a clownwigged trashcan that barely reached my lowest hanging ball yet without compunction it was demanding my credentials: Tetrateer? or Tetguest?
~ Joshua Cohen
When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. … The story is our lives.
~ Joss Whedon
So, what's first? Dexterity. I throw things at you. You avoid them. You're not a complicated person, are you? Let's do it. 20 seconds later You hib me wib a girder! How many claws am I holding up? You hib my face wib a whole girder! You were meant to duck. Can we skip degsteriby?
~ Joss Whedon
All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn.
~ Joss Whedon
And whom do I call my enemy? An enemy must be worthy of engagement. I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking I't the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind. The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun. It sees and knows everything. It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing. The door to the mind should open from the heart. An enemy who gets in risks the danger of becoming a friend.
~ Joy Harjo
Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Not hearing impaired but just not hearing which is a way of not caring.)
~ Joyce Carol Oates
We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.
~ Joyce Meyer
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind. 1 PETER 1:13 KJV
~ Joyce Meyer
We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.
~ Joyce Meyer
Keep your foot [give your mind to what you are doing]. Ecclesiastes 5:1
~ Joyce Meyer
He sugerido que los muros de la academia deben de ser porosos, y que en la misma medida en que las instituciones académicas se vuelcan hacia adentro para refinar sus disciplinas y ámbitos de estudio, deben también volverse hacia el mundo público, y asumir que se sitúan ya siempre en el seno de ese mundo.
~ Judith Butler
Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.
~ Judith McNaught
Has anyone ever told you that you have incredibly beautiful eyes? Yes, and you're prevaricating! And that you're extremely well-spoken, too? he continued, ignoring her remark.
~ Judith McNaught
I think that if you have a talent for acting, it is the talent for listening." — Morgan Freeman
~ Judith Weston
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
~ Judy Blume
Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ... Life should be more than keeping busy. Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not.
~ Judy Blume
But you have to be sure you can handle the situation before you jump into it.
~ Judy Blume
Before the play begins, observe the theater.
~ Jules Michelet
engaging with a work of ancient philosophy can be a two-way street; bringing it into a discussion can enrich that discussion, which also encouraging us to see the work in light of that discussion.
~ Julia Annas
centrality to the ancient tradition of argument, and also of practical engagement with issues important to our lives.
~ Julia Annas
Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.
~ Julia Cameron