Engaged Quotes - Page 8

• When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

  Katherine Boo

  Drama, Stories, Medical

  "Katherine Boo: Slum dweller" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 1012.

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• I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.

  George Saunders

  Differences, Making A Difference, Genius

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• That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

  Billy Bragg

  People, Mud, Wade

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• At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

  Tea Obreht

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Literature

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• When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success.

  Lil Wayne

  Flirty, Flirting, Games

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

  Barbara Feldon

  Missing, Secret, Life Is

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Leader, Musical

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• I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Pride, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

  Frederick Reines

  Brother, Educational, Book

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• When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Done, Littles

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• Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Solitude, Mind

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• After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Real, Book

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• As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

  Margaret Sanger

  Successful, Ideas, People

  Margaret Sanger (2012). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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• Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

  Susan B. Anthony

  President, Salary, Noble

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• I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced.

  George M. Humphrey

  War, Thinking, Events

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• Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

  Barack Obama

  Heaven, Problem, Dangerous

  "With A Midnight Deadline, The Senate Meets To Resolve Patriot Act Issues". "All Things Considered" with Karen Grigsby Bates, www.npr.org. May 31, 2015.

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• I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.

  Charlton Heston

  Country, War, Believe

  "Winning the Cultural War: A Challenge from a Friend". Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum, www.khouse.org. July 01, 1999.

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• Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Race, Organization

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.213, Read Books Ltd

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• The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Friends, Children, Struggle

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• Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

  John Dewey

  Reality, Self, Goal

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• America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in -- often distant places.

  Jeb Bush

  Luxury, America, Doe

  "Jeb Bush's Tough Talk on Foreign Policy". abcnews.go.com.

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• Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Needs, Figures

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• Most traders believe that 'getting into the zone' happens when you have 'a hot streak.' I believe you can create the zone. The zone is a psychological state. It is when you are focused, disciplined, and fully engaged in the process at hand . . . trading in the zone will certainly increase your capacity to perform and succeed.

  Ari Kiev

  Believe, Hands, Hot

  Ari Kiev (2004). “Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes you feel very good and very brave and you're really in solidarity with all your friends, and you're enjoying it, you're probably not advancing the cause very much, because you're spending all your time with people you agree with cheering each other on and not engaging.

  Barney Frank

  Cheer, People, Brave

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Michael Guerriero, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.

  Thom Yorke

  Depressing, Crazy, Dark

  "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 01, 2008.

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