Engagement Quotes - Page 8

• Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Encounters, World, Existential

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.

  Brian Solis

  Opportunity, Reality, Landscape

  Brian Solis (2013). “What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences”, p.100, John Wiley & Sons

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• The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

  Sophie Kerr

  Inspiration, Writing, Longing

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• What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Views, Membership, Matter

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

  Shelley Duvall

  Party, Two, Months

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• It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.

  George Woodward Warder

  Heaven, Would Be, Looks

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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. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence.

  James Madison

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

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• If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. 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

  Mean, Fate, Opposites

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.346, Executive Intelligence Review

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• My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other country; to see that they may be independent of all and under the influence of none.

  George Washington

  Country, Home, Character

  "The real George Washington".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

  Guy Ritchie

  Thinking, Ideas, Dancing

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• There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

  Clancy Brown

  Jobs, Couple, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision

  Chris Cooper

  Strong, Reading, Decision

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• I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

  Grace Kelly

  Doe, Want, Married

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• This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

  Newt Gingrich

  Real, Thinking, Cities

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 17, 2006.

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• Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Commitment, Justice, Movement

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• Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks from some place other than your own. So I'm using the word 'conversation' not only for literal talk but also as a metaphor for engagement with the experience and ideas of others. And I stress the role of the imagination here because the encounters, properly conducted, are valuable in themselves. Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything, especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Art, Stress, Ideas

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• I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

  John Bell Hood

  Sacrifice, Bravery, Soldier

  John Bell Hood (1996). “Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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