Engagement Quotes - Page 9

• You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much better than going at it all frontally. But you can't conjure it in an intellectual way; it has to come out of another engagement, a more intuitive engagement. Revision is where the intellectual, analytical work happens. At least for me.

  Dana Spiotta

  Profound, Intellectual, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The greatest thing you'll ever learn
  Is just to love and be loved in return.

  Eden Ahbez

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Song: 'Nature Boy'". 1948.

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• I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

  Nicole Kidman

  Doe, Want, Married

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• ... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

  Michael Pollan

  Profound, Mind, Culture

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.

  Margaret Haddix

  Cuddling, Together, Whispering

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Expectations, Assumption

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• Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?

  Linda Howard

  Boxes, Rings

  Linda Howard (2004). “To Die For: A Novel”, p.350, Ballantine Books

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• Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. When Mother returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly. Didn't have any trouble except with that one over there,' he replied. 'But a spanking brought him into line.' Mother could handle any crisis without losing her composure. That's not one of ours, dear,' she said. 'He belongs next door.

  Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

  Mother, Running, Dad

  FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”

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• What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Party, Thinking, Shoes

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• One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, Fake, Boss

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• Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Levels, Profit

  "Create social business funds in each country and city". Interview with David Bornstein, www.thedailystar.net. April 19, 2013.

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• In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Goal, Political

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• The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

  Julio Cortazar

  Writing, Loss, Perfection

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• So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.

  Tim Gunn

  Real, Style, Secret

  Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney (2011). “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style”, p.179, Abrams

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• The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

  Alex Johnston

  Business, Decision, Doe

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• He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Guests, Unexpected

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

  Ilona Andrews

  Break, Diplomacy, Remarkable

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• All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

  Bell Hooks

  Commitment, Reflection, Self

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• Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Home, Boss

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• At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

  Richelle Mead

  Long, Lasts, Cry

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.228, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

  Miranda July

  Believe, Mowing, Unnecessary

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Organization, Rewards

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Elephants

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.195, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Light, White

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Real, Fighting, Tools

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