Quotes About Engagement

Si me lo dices, lo olvidaré; enséñamelo y lo recordaré; involúcrame y lo comprenderé»

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

You ready to be fucked, Jack?

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either

when you have a CEO who is so ingrained in the agency, staff, and each and every one of the clients, you only want to push yourself further." Because Barby is so transparent about her values and vision for the organization, "There's no question," according to Alison, "that people want to follow her.

When you give people a choice about being a part of what's happening, they're more likely to be committed to a project. Is there a piece of something you are working on that you could open up to others? It

Unless people can find meaning and purpose in their work, they are not likely to stick around very long or put in the effort required to make a difference. These feelings are particularly important for leaders to tap into during times of high uncertainty.

In brief, leaders with motive and power bases tap followers' motives in order to realize the purposes of both leaders and followers.

In the final quarter of our century that life-and-death engagement with leadership has given way to the cult of personality, to a "gee whiz" approach to celebrities.

It lies not only in recognizing that not all human influences are necessarily coercive and exploitative, that not all transactions among persons are mechanical, impersonal, ephemeral. It lies in seeing that the most powerful influences consist of deeply human relationships in which two or more persons engage with one another.

when one finds oneself participating in an endeavor entirely without merit, one withdraws.

Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

being present." Once you are present to what you are saying, you express it differently, and as a result it sounds different

Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot.

There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

Infinite players do not oppose the actions of others, but initiate actions of their own in such a way that others will respond by initiating their own.

This means that a particular burden falls on property owners. Since the laws protecting their property will be effective only when they are able to persuade others to obey those laws, they must introduce a theatricality into their ownership sufficiently engaging that their opponents will live by its script.

Our first response to hearing a story is the desire to tell it ourselves-the greater the story the greater the desire. We will go to considerable time and inconvenience to arrange a situation for its retelling. It is as though the story is itself seeking the occasion for its recurrence, making use of us as its agents. We do not go out searching for stories for ourselves; it is rather the stories that have found us for themselves.

Speaker and listener understand each other not because they have the same knowledge about something, and not because they have established a likeness of mind, but because they know "how to go on" with each other (Wittgenstein).