Quotes About Engagement

I do not think I have seen anyone so beautiful; I was enchanted by her manner and her wit, at once so masked, so ingenuous and so penetrating. But one felt a terrible unreality about her — as if talking to someone under water. Bobby and I engaged in mock competition for her; she was most agreeable to him and pleasant to me, but one never felt her to be wholly engaged. She receded into her own glittering mist.

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

We understand nature by resisting it.

Congregational singing requires proximity. "If I am more than three feet away from you, I don't sing, because you might hear me. If I am less than three feet away, I do sing, because I can hear you.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Rules for making the world: 1. Stand up & do the thing you see needs doing. 2. That's it. (If it was easy, we'd be having a different conversation.) —Action Plan

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Stop thinking about art works as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that s already inside it but something that happens inside you.

How did I get involved? As a young man I chanced to flirt with it and it possessed me.

Biblical imagination does not engage in syncretism (blending opposing views), but in subversion (infiltrating and overthrowing an opposing view). The commonalities show

People understand ideas when ideas relate to something they already know.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Colleagues at work found him talkative and articulate, but occasionally boring, and he lacked the sense to recognise when he had said enough (even when other people held newspapers in front of their faces) and went on talking as if the most profound interest had been shown.

is boring to most people. Nothing happens. On the other end of the spectrum is the story that uses characters who are simply buffeted around by the story. Things happen to them, and character and

What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it's become like the movie business, where a movie has to "open big"; if a book hasn't caught anybody's interest in the first two weeks of its life, it's not going to.

When you look at the list of the five stops in the discipleship journey, where is your group already engaged and where do you need to focus in the future? Love of God Way of Jesus Leadership Calling Sending

Any place where we can go consistently and remain anonymous is not a witnessing church.

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

A good general rule around communication is to include as few people as necessary in synchronous communication (like meetings), and to go for a broader audience in asynchronous communication (like email).

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?