Quotes About Engagement

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.

They learned the hard way that you can't save nobody who ain't interested in being saved.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire, said Miss Tick. There may be no survivors.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari

The city's full of people who you just see around.

It was impossible for him to get bored. He just didn't have the imagination.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend the other half listening.

Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum. When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.

Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout 'Attack!' but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

But most of all in the last couple of years I have been listening. As a journalist, I learned to listen. It is amazing how much people will tell you if you listen in the right way. Rob, my PA, says that I can listen like a vacuum cleaner. Always beware of somebody who is a really good listener.

In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.

Actors had a habit of filling all the space around them.

He had spent years in search of boredom, but had never achieved it. Just when he thought he had it in his grasp his life would suddenly become full of near-terminal interest.

You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

Let me through. I'm a nosy person.' she said, employing both elbows. It worked, as this sort of approach generally does.

When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.

It doesn't take a lot to interest goats.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.