The Power of Full Engagement Quotes

“As Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do.” Or as the Dalai Lama put it more recently: “There isn’t anything that isn’t made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Watching television is the mental and emotional equivalent of eating junk food.”
― Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Energy, Not Time, Is Our Most Precious Resource”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The simple, almost embarrassing reality is that we feel too busy to search for meaning.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We live in a world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery, and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high performance.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Gallup found that the key drivers of productivity for employees include whether they feel cared for by a supervisor or someone at work; whether they have received recognition or praise during the past seven days; and whether someone at work regularly encourages their development. Put another way, the ability to communicate consistently positive energy lies at the heart of effective management.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Drinking water, we have found, is perhaps the most undervalued source of physical energy renewal.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The most important organizational resource is energy.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The more exacting the challenge, the more rigorous our rituals need to be.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“In his Treatise on Painting, da Vinci wrote, “It is a very good plan every now and then to go away and have a little relaxation. . . . When you come back to the work your judgment will be surer, since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose the power of judgment.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“It is a mark of courage to set aside self-interest in order to be of service to others or to a cause.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“• A dynamic relationship exists between physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy. • Changes in any one dimension of energy affect all dimensions. 22. Energy capacities follow developmental lines. • First level of development is physical. • Second level of development is emotional/social. • Third level of development is cognitive/mental. • Fourth level of development is moral/spiritual.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“relying on junk food for bursts of energy; smoking or drinking to manage anxiety; furiously multitasking to meet demands; setting aside more challenging, long-term projects in favor of what feels immediately pressing and easier to accomplish, and devoting little energy to personal relationships. The costs of these choices and many others only show up over time.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels. Doing so literally causes microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. At the end of a training session, functional capacity is diminished. But give the muscle twenty-four to forty-eight hours to recover and it grows stronger and better able to handle the next stimulus.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Sprinters typically look powerful, bursting with energy and eager to push themselves to their limits. The explanation is simple. No matter how intense the demand they face, the finish line is clearly visible 100 or 200 meters down the track. We, too, must learn to live our own lives as a series of sprints—fully engaging for periods of time, and then fully disengaging and seeking renewal before jumping back into the fray to face whatever challenges confront us.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The primary markers of physical capacity are strength, endurance, flexibility and resilience.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Take Proverbs 16:32, for example: ‘He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Jump ahead to the end of your life. What are the three most important lessons you have learned and why are they so critical? • Think of someone that you deeply respect. Describe three qualities in this person that you most admire. • Who are you at your best? • What one-sentence inscription would you like to see on your tombstone that would capture who you really were in your life?”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Barriers to full engagement: Negative habits that block, distort, waste, diminish, deplete and contaminate stored energy.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“America is the only country in the world in which employees work more hours per week than the Japanese.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The central defect of evil is not the sin but the refusal to acknowledge it,” writes M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled. “The evil attack others instead of facing their own failures . . . since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Leaders have a disproportionate impact on the energy of others.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal