Quotes About Engagement

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve in order to understand itself. The complex organization of the brain evolved as a consequence of our sensorial and muscled engagement with the landscapes that surround us.

If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us—we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski

Local government is where the rubber hits the road. While state legislators and members of Congress are more remote, local officials are present and visible. They are the first responders of politics.

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

Listening is an underrated asset. People these days, they don't listen as much as they should. I read a lot, I travel a lot and I'm always listening.

As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, "Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art." In

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

In mixed company, be readier to hear than to speak, and put people upon talking of what is in their own way; for then you will both oblige them, and be most likely to improve by their conversation.

What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter.

Stephen Covey. Ele diz que a maioria das pessoas não escuta com a intenção de compreender, mas de responder.

it's hard to imagine a more tedious approach, practically guaranteed to deaden the enthusiasm of 12-year-olds.

Teachers needed to emphasize the message, not the medium. Ideally, the curriculum should be so engaging that students would forget which language the teacher was using!

A highly structured, prescriptive model of sheltering and scaffolding is not necessary for effectively educating English learners. In fact, mandating any approach that allows for little deviation is likely to be counterproductive. Just as explicit instruction encourages passive learning, tightly scripted lessons encourage passive teaching.

God gives us enemies to make sure there'll always be someone around who's interested in how we're doing.

I'm like a chatterbox when I'm in pain or found someone who digs my conversation and challenges me instead of just nodding in agreement

We do not live in a zoo so we will not act like it as a neighborhood, in order to be a great neighborhood each of us needs to do our part and start acting like it

There is a proper way to shake hands with Google first before sitting down with them for dinner

Its Ninety Nine percent word play how you phrase your words determines how hands on you need to be

Initiate a proper handshake and the whole world opens up for you. – James D. Wilson

By any measure the mathematics of the engagement were preposterously against them. The Yamato displaced nearly seventy thousand tons. She alone matched almost exactly in weight all thirteen ships of Taffy 3. Each of her three main gun turrets weighed more than an entire Fletcher-class destroyer.

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.