Engaging Quotes

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  Irving Howe

  Reality, Imagination, Leaving

  Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

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• As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

  Alan Thicke

  Children, Father, Responsibility

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• Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

  Bodhidharma

  Ignorance, Stupidity

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

  Christian Louboutin

  Passion, Memorable, Color

  "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Recovery, People, Way

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• My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

  Casey Affleck

  Mom, Long, Choices

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

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• The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

  Harrison Ford

  Focus And Concentration, Meditation, Flying

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• Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

  Joe Lieberman

  Strong, Mean, Community

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• I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Years, Would Be

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• It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

  Amartya Sen

  Home, Delight, Bangladesh

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• The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

  George Pataki

  War, Pregnancy, Israel

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• I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Personality, Popularity

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• Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

  Ellis Peters

  Religion, Receiving, Benefits

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Hermit Of Eyton Forest”, p.58, Head of Zeus

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• I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.

  Lesley Garrett

  Right Now

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Art is more engaging that propaganda.

  Larry Norman

  Art, Propaganda, Art Is

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• I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Cells, Research

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding". www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

  John W. Snow

  Successful, Views, Citizens

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• Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

  John Doolittle

  Opportunity, Lines, Speech

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• The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Writing, Two, Familiar

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• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  Robert Frost

  Icy, Cowardice

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Party, Moving, Fighting

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Poetry, Curiosity, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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• Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

  Lucy Stone

  Women, Independent, Clothes

  "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony". Book by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Blow, Curiosity

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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