Quotes About Engagement

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.

Are we, like, having a conversation?" "Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation

Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front.

I'm not helping you, Ms. Lane. I'm entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.

But when you fight evil every day, stare it in the face, engage it, learn to think like it, you face a choice:Be defeated by the limits of your own morality, or summon a beast in yourself that obeys none.

He may not have yet seduced her into his bed, but he'd succeeded in seducing her into his life in countless other ways, each an invisible, silken knot, binding her to him as he lured her deeper into his world.

It irritated him that she wouldn't turn about and look at him; it was the least she could do while they said nasty things to each other.

A long silence usually makes people fill it up with something.

Who are you?" he began quietly. He would continue in a gentle voice until she demonstrated resistance. Then he might roar at her. With a small measure of amusement, he conceded the probability that this lass would roar back.

experiencing fewer problems and frustrations in their day-to-day work, the work force will become even more engaged in the improvement process

We find a direct link between results and the degree to which the executive sponsor remains visibly engaged.

You need to talk about it. Explain it. Let people ask questions.

If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.

Then, that memorably powerful look into my eyes told me something more: compared to dogs, wolves are grown-ups. He was not asking for help, head down, forehead wrinkled, as a dog might: "Is this right? What do you want?" Instead, head high, gaze level, he was assessing me, like a poker player: "Are you in or out?" Judging that I was in, he made his move; and we both won. (p.6)

The animal has discovered, in me, a new resource, like a new water hole or berry patch. Thus it takes a new and intense interest in what I do. That opens up huge opportunities for understanding. (p.13)

their eyes flicking all over each other.

How then shall we live? Fully. Intentionally. Attentively. Lovingly.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

Sitting back and not getting involved while people get killed in an endless cycle of wars doesn't count as not having blood on your hands.

if I could develop one new skill that would make a big difference in how most people communicate, it would be the skill of making a request.

To reach your children, Ruth thought, you have to take an interest in whatever is important to them...

Oh, a math word problem. You're flirting with me, aren't you?