Engagement Quotes

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Always engage yourself positively with situations.

I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.

It is better to play than do nothing.

If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

I think my most important advice is to understand what are the foundations of a healthy democracy and how we have to engage in citizenship continuously, not just when something upsets us; not just when there's an election or when an issue pops up for a few weeks. It's hard work.

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

The world is run by the people who show up.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.