Quotes About Engagement

Four days a week at a hundred a day . . . that's four hundred people, weekly, moseying past our group, noticing open Bibles and eager disciples. In four weeks 1,600 people will amble by our quiet 20/20/20 testimony.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

had it easy. Because he didn't have to run a ministry or manage a congregation, he was free to engage people exactly as he found them. He didn't have to make them do anything for him; thus, he was free to love them and they were free to respond to that love or reject it. He didn't need their tithes to pay his salary, their attendance to validate his ego, or their time to fill out his program.

I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Wayne All I have to say about that is asphinctersayswhat. Arcade owner What Wayne Exactly.

What matters is action. Not to think about writing, but to write. Not to think about sailing, but to sail. Not to think about loving, but to love.

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Hear carefully when someone is speaking, if you missed it, too bad

To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.

By virtue of the literary work over which they meet, the reader and the writer both begin to loosen their hold on selfhood.

The right kind of listener makes a difference. When someone takes the time to hear us out, something singular happens. By being interested and showing it, the listener becomes part of the tale.

Kau tidak pernah tahu apa yang akan kau ketahui saat membuka sebuah buku. Dan jika isinya adalah suatu cerita, kau akan tenggelam kedalamnya. Kemudian, kau akan tinggal disana beberapa saat, bukannya-kau tahu-tinggal disini.

Church doors are open, but social media is crowded.

Even though I know I'm not going to win, competing is more fun than sitting at home complaining.

too much detail can have a distancing effect

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Kids today have the attention span of high-speed lint.

My experience is that I can think while strolling but cannot engage in mental work that imposes a heavy load on short-term memory.

Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to racing motorcycles—and

The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.