Quotes About Engagement

Refrain from discussing subjects that can destroy your awareness of the people around you and the food. If someone is thinking about something other than the good food on the table, such as his difficulties in the office or with friends, it means he is losing the present moment and the food. You can help by returning his attention to the meal.

What is the purpose of eating a tangerine? It is to eat the tanger­ine. During the time you eat a tangerine, eating that tanger­ine is the most important thing in your life.

How we deal with our daily lives is the most important question.

mindfulness is not something that is only done in a meditation hall; it is also done in the kitchen, in the garden, when we are on the telephone, when we are driving a car, when we are doing the dishes. If

Each of us, for the most part, continues his daily life, contributing to the maintenance and consolidation of the machinery of production and consumption. We eat, drink, work, and divert ourselves, as if nothing is going to happen.

There are things we can do. It is very important to come home to ourselves and look deeply to see what we can do every day to help the situation. Taking action helps us not to drown in despair.

I am here, available to life. And life is available to me.

The idea that doing dishes is unpleasant can occur to us only when we are not doing them. Once we're standing in front of the sink with our sleeves rolled up and our hands in warm water, it's really not bad at all.

mindfulness means reclaiming attention

I deliver the fans what they want. I create a jolly!

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like you're in the action. You're not just passively watching it from far away. That's something that I have constantly aspired to do - even in 'Swingers,' to feel like you're Jon Favreau; you're not just watching him.

You can't just walk up to Lebron James in a crowd of players and talk to him the way you can walk up to Jon Jones.

Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.