Quotes about Engagement

Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children an opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.

I]t is a matter of indifference what a person's occupation is, or at what job he works. The crucial thing is how he works, whether he in fact fills the place in which he happens to have landed. The radius of his activity is not important; important alone is whether he fills the circle of his tasks.

One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.

It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

The relief of being at last engaged in the execution of the purpose, was so great to me that I felt it difficult to realise the condition in which I had been a few hours before.

He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.

Statistics indicate that 95 percent of all Christians have never led another person to Christ.

How could any theologian explain the meaning of Christian identity in America and fail to engage white supremacy, its primary negation?

We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out-- when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.