Quotes About Engagement

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se

Si guardano. Alcuni, non si sa mai, si piazzano davanti un foglio e mettono le bic in posizione di attacco. No, no, e inutile prendere appunti. Cercate solo di ascoltare. - Si pone allora il problema dell'atteggiamento. Che cosa ne è di un corpo in un'aula scolastica, se non ha più l'alibi della penna a sfera e del foglio bianco?

Insegnare è proprio questo: ricominciare fino a scomparire come professori. Se non riusciamo a collocare i nostri studenti nell'indicativo presente della nostra lezione, se il nostro sapere e il piacere di servirsene non attecchiscono su quei ragazzini e quelle ragazzine, nel senso botanico del termine, la loro esistenza vacillerà sopra vuoti infiniti.

Non si riuscirà mai a far capire a un ragazzo che, la sera, è nel bel mezzo di una storia avvincente, non si riuscirà mai a fargli capire, con una dimostrazione limitata a lui stesso, che deve interrompere la lettura e andare a letto.- È Kafka a scrivere questo nel diario, il piccolo Franz, che papà avrebbe preferito veder passare tutte le notti della sua vita a fare conti.

Far sentire qui quel che succede là era la sua unica passione: la principessa Ubiquità in persona. (Liesl Fraenkel)

But for now they're all reading together, under the influence of that magic that turns a class into a single reading being, while keeping its thirty personalities distinct.

Niente televisione, ma pianoforte dalle cinque alle sei, chitarra dalle sei alle sette, danza il mercoledì, judo, tennis, scherma il sabato, sci di fondo ai primi fiocchi di neve, corso di vela ai primi raggi di sole, ceramica i giorni di pioggia, viaggio in Inghilterra, ginnastica ritmica... Nessunissima possibilità lasciata al più piccolo quarto d'ora di faccia a faccia con se stesso.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

Real challenges are far more invigorating than controlled leisure.

But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

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You know where everything is. You practically live here now." Shamron muttered something in Polish about the ingratitude

watched John and I

The text has in it the wizardry of politics—the fact that it is possible for a multitudinous heap of people to build a shared life by doing things with words.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

This procedure of building the audience before developing the offer has profound implications to the operation and growth of your business.

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

I was developing what I would call an "athletic" approach to hospitality, sometimes playing offense, sometimes playing defense, but always wanting to find a way to win. ... The point is to keep the dialogue open while sending the message: I am your agent, not the gatekeeper!

To go through the motions in a perfunctory or self-absorbed manner, no matter how expertly rendered, diminishes the beauty. It's about soul—and service without soul, no matter how elegant, is quickly forgotten by the guest.

So, maybe Yeses are meant to be shared. Maybe that's what all this is about. Maybe life's about finding opportunities to share with someone. That's all it is, when you think about it. A series of opportunities to share.

Hello?' said the taxi driver, and I realized that it's all very well having an internal monologue, but it does tend to leave the other person a bit stranded, conversationally.