#engaging

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#engaging #familiar #familiar things #make #most

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future. ↗

— John Barton

#born #cannot #comfortable #engaging #fact

Humor is the most engaging cowardice. ↗

— Robert Frost

#engaging #humor #most

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

#almost #children #concepts #dismiss #engaging

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. ↗

— Al Gore

#contest #engaging #george #george w #i

It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#both #definitely #engaging #getting #look

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#cell research #engaging #federal #federal funding #foolhardy

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#agreed #boarding #both #dozens #engaging

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#conferred #engaging #even #gratification #having