Quotes About Engagement

It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I'd never seen anybody in a library pick up a small literary journal.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

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. It's 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 only open from the heart. An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.

Whereas books, once read, become fully a part of us.

A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never.

your eyes will be drawn to one small odd thing among all the thousands of others—the thing that calls to you, and suddenly, out of everything else your eyes are taking in and disregarding, they'll focus on this one spot where something doesn't make sense, or maybe it spells danger, or it just reminds you of a time and place different from this one. And you can't look away.

Mary Jo Meadows defines compassion as "the quivering of the heart in response to another's suffering" and notes that "compassionate beings . . . cannot bear to see suffering and remain unengaged.

El noventa por ciento del trabajo es estar junto a quien tienes que estar. El otro diez por ciento, se improvisa sobre la marcha.

Hay una diferencia entre participar e implicarse. En un plato de huevos fritos con chorizo, la gallina participa. El cerdo se implica.

no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text.

Working with an audience is like being an animal trainer. If you go in the ring and you're a little bit nervous and your hand's shaking, the animals sense it and they rip you apart. Same thing with audiences.

After a few dates, he'd propose marriage over a bottle of wine.

Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony?

Too often we fall into the trap of thinking that if we give employees the facts and explain why change needs to take place from an economic point of view, they'll buy into the change. We overestimate the power of logic and underestimate the power of storytelling, an appeal to belonging and the positive emotions of belonging.

Researchers have concluded two things. One is that we drop out of conversations every twelve to eighteen seconds to process what people are saying; two, we often remember what we think about what another person is saying because that is a stronger internal process and chemical signal. In other words, our internal listening and dialogue trumps the other person's speech.

If telling more doesn't create the results she wants, the leader may "sell" her ideas to get people on board; when this doesn't work, she is inclined to "yell" to get results. Yet employees don't want more "vision," they want deeper engagement with leaders who can help them execute the vision.

First. I give a damn. About everything you do

the answers are within me. ?Life is practice, practice is life. ?I commit to living my life fully in this moment.

to practice is to pay attention to your whole life: your thoughts, your bodily sensations, and your speech and other actions.

when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering.

However, if you accept the actual invitation, no other appointment—unless with a surgeon or an undertaker—can take precedence.

Whenever possible, look at the camera, not at the person to whom you are talking. It represents the person to whom you are really talking: the viewer.

Conversation, which is supposed to be a two-way street, is treated by many people as if it were a divided highway. They may acknowledge that traffic must go in both directions, but speed independently on their own way, expecting you to do the same on your side. If

What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?" "A fat cloud." Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?" He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds and three thin ones.