Engaged Quotes - Page 8

• I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Thinking, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Class, Athletic

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Persistence, Community, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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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 am in love with life. I think it's pretty awesome when you are engaged in it. I love my family and my friends, and that to me is the biggest...that's the love of my life are my friends and family and the experience that I get to share with them. It puts a smile on my face and in my heart.

  Cameron Diaz

  Heart, Love Life, Thinking

  "Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas and Ryan Seacrest Interview SHREK FOREVER AFTER". collider.com. May 19, 2010.

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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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• Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

  Felix Adler

  God, Religious, Real

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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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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• A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Educational, Heart

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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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• All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

  Wade Davis

  Life Changing, Culture, Possibility

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• I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

  John Adams

  Jealousy, Ambition, Envy

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.593

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• Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

  David Bohm

  Way, Doe, Attention

  "On Dialogue". Book by David Bohm, 1990.

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• Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

  George Ball

  Struggle, Garden, Desert

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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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• Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

  John Taylor

  Work, Zion, Causes

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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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• What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Eye, Angel

  Jonathan Edwards, American Tract Society (184?). “A History of the Work of Redemption: Comprising an Outline of Church History”

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• An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Business, Littles, Might

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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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