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Quotes About Engagement

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others
~ Michael Ondaatje
Sorun onu kucaklayarak çözümlenmez. Sorunla baÅŸ baÅŸa kal?rsan?z onunla muhabbet etmeyin.
~ Michael Ondaatje
The essence of good listening is empathy, which can be achieved only by suspending our preoccupation with ourselves and entering into the experience of the other person.
~ Michael P. Nichols
Sometimes people appear to be listening but aren't really hearing. Some people are good at being silent when we talk. Sometimes they betray their lack of interest by glancing around and shifting their weight back and forth. At other times, however, listeners show no sign of inattention, but still we know they aren't really hearing what we have to say. It feels like they don't care.
~ Michael P. Nichols
When chopping onions, just chop onions.
~ Michael Pollan
It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.
~ Michael Pollan
It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.
~ Michael Pollan
An act as quotidian and practical as making your own sauerkraut represents nothing less than a way of engaging with the world. Or rather, with several different worlds, each nested inside the other: the invisible world of fungi and bacteria; the community in which you live; and the industrial food system that is undermining the health of our bodies and the land.
~ Michael Pollan
antidotes to our abstraction.
~ Michael Pollan
I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!
~ Celeste Ng
When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.
~ David Amram
I do television, films and theatre simultaneously.
~ Mohan Joshi
The biggest cardinal sin is not being in the moment, whether in life or on-screen. You owe it to your fellow actor that if they feed you something, you give them an earnest response to what they've said to you as opposed to what you wanted to do before they ever showed up.
~ Romany Malco
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
~ Adam Baldwin
Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
~ Chuck Mangione
If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.
~ Susannah McCorkle
We are absolutely going to do an acoustic tour. We are, sincerely.
~ Ivan Moody
The more projects you do, the more actors you meet, the more people you meet, it's harder and harder to give your heart and your complete attention or absolute sincerity to that person.
~ Sung Kang
To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.
~ Dave Gahan
I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don't know why.
~ Don Henley
Countries in Asia - Singapore, certainly, but many other countries too - are good friends to both China and America, and we would like to be good friends with both.
~ Lee Hsien Loong