Engagement Quotes - Page 5

• Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Good Life, Care, Joining

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  And Love, Virtue, Delusion

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• The loving are the daring.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Daring, First Love

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.246

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• A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

  Seth Godin

  Connections, Dialogue

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  Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Monday

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2014

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• Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Spiritual, Taken

  Aberjhani (2008). “Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.

  George Washington

  Independent, Government, Honor

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!

  Jay Leno

  Marriage, Promise, Suffering

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• I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years.  But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it.  We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Years, People, Balls

  "Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet: On set with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes" by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, ew.com. September 06, 1996.

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• Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Meat Eating

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large cast of characters and traces an ongoing conversation among the writers and critics of this period. This book is likely to become a model for a new generation of scholars, both for the breadth of its engagement and the depth of its archival research.

  Werner Sollors

  Book, Writing, Character

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• So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mystical Experiences, Civilization, Offering

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• Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

  Richard Serra

  Thinking, Walking Away, Trying

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• States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fate, Opposites, Individual

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.4

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• The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

  Julio Cortazar

  Writing, Loss, Perfection

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• So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.

  Tim Gunn

  Real, Style, Secret

  Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney (2011). “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style”, p.179, Abrams

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• The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Light, White

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Elephants

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.195, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Organization, Rewards

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

  Miranda July

  Believe, Mowing, Unnecessary

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

  Richelle Mead

  Long, Lasts, Cry

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.228, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Home, Boss

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• All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

  Bell Hooks

  Commitment, Reflection, Self

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• In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

  Ilona Andrews

  Break, Diplomacy, Remarkable

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• He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Guests, Unexpected

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.15, Harper Collins

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