Engaged Quotes - Page 14

• I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.

  Antony Hegarty

  Creativity, Divorce, Reflection

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet them in schools and see that the books really have engaged their hearts and imaginations. That's what makes it so worthwhile.

  Will Hobbs

  Fun, Book, Heart

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.

  Michael Longley

  Latin, Greek, Levels

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Single Mom, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Media, Bjp

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• I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mind, Stories, Chaos

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

  Susan Orlean

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• There are some people who think that at some time in the future, China may challenge us for supremacy in the Pacific, and therefore, what do we do today to prevent that? And you, of course, will say that we will try to thwart any economic progress in China. If we engaged in such a policy, we would turn a billion-plus people into nationalist opponents of the United States.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Heart, Giving

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• If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

  Thomas Watson

  Loyalty, Business, Commitment

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• One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

  Mel Odom

  Frustration, Thinking, Mind

  Mel Odom (2005). “Lord of the Libraries”, p.301, Macmillan

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• Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.

  John Piper

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.86, SPCK

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• The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, Views

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Translations of the philosophical works”, p.68

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• Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fate, Men, Chance

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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• Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Law, Personality

  John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

  Esther Perel

  Dating, Granted, Tension

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

  Willem Dafoe

  New York, Thinking, Healthy

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In England we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

  Marge Piercy

  Way, Suspense, Reader

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• ... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Giving, Innovation

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• Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Sea, Lemmings, Proud

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• It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

  J. William Fulbright

  Ideas, People, Principles

  "Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2010.

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• When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.

  John Hersey

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.

  Barbara Deming

  Hurt, Struggle, Moving

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• People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.

  Hill Harper

  Love Is, People, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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