Engagement Quotes - Page 15

• I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore

  Cynthia Nixon

  Thinking, Want, Married

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• It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Arguing, Destruction, Polemics

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• In Burma, economic engagement enriches the regime, as the economy is controlled by the regime. Economic engagement benefits this elite, not ordinary people. The money is spent on the military, stolen by the elite.

  Zoya Phan

  Military, People, Ordinary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

  Prince William

  Horror Stories, Said, Wells

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  If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Simple, Looks

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 27, 2014

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• People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, People, Blame

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• Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

  Andrew Hogue

  Real, Return, Each Day

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• But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Organization, Political

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• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

  James Madison

  Mean, Hands, Promise

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.37, University of Virginia Press

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• Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Discovery, Accomplishment, Mind

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, People, Height

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• Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Assessment, Church

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• Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Military, Commitment, Successful

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• At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

  Esther Perel

  Teenager, Passion, Home

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• When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.

  Widad Akrawi

  Practice, Bridges, Skills

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• One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes, an exceptional writer finds an exceptional premise, and the result is a truly exceptional book. Such is the case with Miss Dreamsville...The writing is brilliant, especially the dialogue through which the characters are defined.

  Philip K. Jason

  Book, Writing, Character

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• If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Years, Giving

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• Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Opposites, Empowering

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Novelists, Movement

  Vivian Gornick (2002). “The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

  Joichi Ito

  Inspiration, Creativity, Past

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• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Queens, Inspiration, Writing

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• I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

  Herschel Walker

  Inspiration, Giving, Stories

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• Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Decisions You Make, Decision, Who You Are

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• The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Block, Cutting, Cities

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• There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

  Michael Gartner

  Passion, Personality, Decision

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