Quotes About Engagement

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Story is revealed not in telling, but in listening.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

If you are a member of a big family, you always have someone at hand for golf, tennis, walks, movies. You never have to "find company," so to speak.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

si nous avons assez d'une chose, à tort ou à raison, nous n'avons qu'à nous occuper d'une autre ; rien ne nous oblige à la vilipender ; qui s'est trop occupé d'Aristote peut aller jouer du violon

Communication, according to Maturana, is not primarily a transmission of information, but rather a coordination of behavior between living organisms.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

Whoever reflects on the origin of sin cannot engage himself in a merely theoretical dispute; rather, he is engaged, intimately and personally, in what can only be called the problem of sin's guilt

Whoever reflects on the origin of sin cannot engage himself in a merely theoretical dispute; rather he is engaged intimately, in ... the problem of sin's guilt.

What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

His short attention span was both endearing and aggravating. His mind would wander so much that those who really needed to speak with him tried to isolate him from distractions. "To talk to Gordon you had to take him in the car, drive and not let him turn on the radio," one said.