Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.
It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.
In terms of creative engagement, I just love being able to produce, produce, produce. You don't always get it perfect, but it has much more of an improvisational element, and you learn.
Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.
I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.
More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
ALEC, has been I think a wonderful organization. Not only does it bring like-minded legislators together. But the private sector engagement in partnership in ALEC is really what I think makes it the organization that it is.
I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
Business and human endeavors are systems. . . we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.