complete engagement Quotes

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.

I just want to use all of myself, for the rest of my life, in every facet of my life, as long as I live.

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

I love being completely immersed in everything I do.

If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing and the doer. So go for it. Hold nothing back. In life. Or love. Or anything at all!