Quotes About Engagement

PE teachers are usually very good with the kids because they don't muck about.

engaging' pupils rather than instructing them. Meaningless phrases such as 'linking cross curricular activities' and 'teaching children rather than subjects' are bandied around to wise nods of approval, but the one question that is never asked is: 'Does any of this weird stuff really work?

We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.

The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people.

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

Although Ivar dominated every conversation, he did so with a modest, almost self-deprecating air. He seemed apologetic, even embarrassed, that he knew all these things. As he moved among the passengers, he left them feeling that they, not he, had been asking all the questions. Even as Ivar held forth, they wanted him to say more, not less.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not.

Altogether, fewer than 10 percent of citizen interactions with the police involve criminal investigations, and almost 60 percent involve traffic stops or accidents, with routine traffic stops by far the most common source of all police contact

What's the point of quoting the Bible to people who don't believe it's true" Dad would say.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

Afterward all participants were invited to spit into a cup, which allowed scientists to extract a hormone associated with anxiety. They found that with confident speakers, the audience followed every word, feeling relaxed, but with nervous ones, the speaker's discomfort rubbed off on the audience. The hormone levels of speakers and audiences converged the way they did between vole mates.35

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand.

To politicize the masses is to make the nation in its totality a reality for every citizen. To make the experience of the nation, the experience of every citizen" (140).

You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

Attention is living; inattention is dying. The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already. Dhammapada 21 We frequently hear it said that staying involved in life keeps you young.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.