Engaged Quotes - Page 15

• I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.

  Leonard Orr

  Right Time, Right Place, Knows

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• All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

  Gwen Ifill

  Party, Hands, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged in that kind of documentary - they don't fall in love, they don't cry, they don't forget who they are, they don't ride with you. As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.

  Abigail Disney

  Falling In Love, Real, Differences

  "This Film Could Change How the Right Wing Feels About Guns". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. October 31, 2015.

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• Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, World

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

  Natalie Dormer

  Men, Feminist, Three

  "Natalie Dormer on Feminism: 'It Just Means Liberation and Equality'" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. November 25, 2014.

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• I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.

  Hugh Hendry

  Mood, Social, Interpretation

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• People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

  Jillian Mayer

  People, Interesting, Challenges

  "AFI Women Directors: Meet Jillian Mayer" by Kerensa Cadenas, www.indiewire.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Strong, Children, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Voice, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.753, Modern Library

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• Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fighting, Numbers, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood.

  Tori Spelling

  Summer, Husband, Nice

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• One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dollars, Pursuit, Pursued

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

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• Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Clever, People, Intuition

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged.

  Penney Peirce

  Priorities, Should

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• Money is only a byproduct of being engaged in a worthy cause.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Causes, Worthy, Worthy Causes

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Selfish, War, People

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• I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.

  John Green

  Smart, Thinking, Talking

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• For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected...and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.

  Simone Campbell

  Real, Roots, People

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• People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

  Tom Rath

  Jobs, Loneliness, People

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered

  Tom Peters

  Mind, Connections, Littles

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.30, Knopf

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• We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

  Brené Brown

  Perfect, Action, Committed

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.151, Penguin

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• Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Like Love, Happiness And Love

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Breathing, Events

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need....Government has a role, and an important role. Yet, too much government crowds out initiative and hard work, private charity and the private economy....Government should be active, but limited; engaged, but not overbearing.

  George W. Bush

  Hard Work, Tired, Years

  Address to Joint Session of Congress, delivered 27 February 2001

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