Quotes About Engagement

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

the best school leaders are present in classrooms a lot, working constructively and supportively with teachers.

If you hadn't been there, the teaching and learning would have been the same.

In every subject, the student experience should be summed up by '3Es': exciting, engaging and enjoyable. The extent to which this holds true will be determined by the quality of teaching.

Is there anybody alive out there?

Brixie wasn't talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in her own world, flaming away like a blowtorch. She was such an Internet fiend that she had never learned any other way to behave.»

The child, so much more insecure than an adult, needs assurance that his need to engage in fantasy, or his inability to stop doing so, is not a deficiency.

His principal interest was evangelism, and apologetics was but a means to that end, for Francis Schaeffer was convinced that if the Christian faith is to be effectively communicated, "we must know and understand the thought-forms of our own generation."81

Kuyper called upon Christians to wage a struggle against all compromises with truth in every area of life and learning.

In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why people with conventional interests seem more socially intelligent. Even if they don't check whether their audience cares, it probably does.

It was said of Charles Spurgeon that he "addressed two thousand people as though he were speaking personally to one man.

The 3:00 A.M. test requires you to imagine a spouse, a roommate, or a parishioner waking you from a deep slumber with this simple question: "What's the sermon about today, Preacher?" If you cannot give a crisp answer, the sermon is probably half-baked. Thoughts you cannot gather at 3:00 A.M. are not likely to be caught by others at 11:00 A.M.

Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

As parents, we have a chance when our children are young to turn them into good citizens rather than wait for the government to raise them for us.

You can tell you're alive when somebody touches you back.

Many children are nowayears too lazy even to do their own playing.

I offer the book, relying on the maxim of Rabbi Tarfon in Ethics of the Fathers : The work is not yours to finish; but neither are you free to take no part in it.

The toiling masses,' and all that. This country has no toiling masses, we have Dan at the diner and Verne in the mine and Jerry in the steel mill and Burdette at the filling station and so on. They don't toil, for Christ's sake, they do a day's work and then they go home and have a beer. You can't get them into a mass for anything. If there's a good ball game on TV they won't come out to see the president ride by.

on having dinner with us.

Political indifference is closely linked to ethical depravity.