Quotes about Engagement
They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.
- John Updike
how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.
- John Wooden
There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.
- Tina Turner
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
- Thomas Merton
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives.
- Les Brown
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Maya Angelou
I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.
- Maya Angelou
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt