Engaging Quotes - Page 10

• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Time, Jobs, Military

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• Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Healthy, Entering

  Thomas Jefferson (1974). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 24 January to 31 March 1791”

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• Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Knowing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Emerson's Complete Works: Society and solitude”

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• It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Wise, Enough, Being Wise

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• I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.

  Dean Spade

  War, Teaching, Reading

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• We should interact with legal reform tactically, knowing that it will not meet our ultimate goals but asking whether there are ways that engaging with particular reforms might benefit our work and help reduce certain harms or dangers.

  Dean Spade

  Knowing, Goal, Reform

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.

  Ben Affleck

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

  "The Hollywood Education of Ben Affleck, from ‘Chasing Amy,’ ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Shakespeare’ to his Second Act and ‘Argo’". Interview with Leonard Maltin, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

  Halsey

  Song, Writing, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

  John Darnielle

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview with Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Biblical, Views

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• If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes you feel very good and very brave and you're really in solidarity with all your friends, and you're enjoying it, you're probably not advancing the cause very much, because you're spending all your time with people you agree with cheering each other on and not engaging.

  Barney Frank

  Cheer, People, Brave

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Michael Guerriero, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

  Christopher Nolan

  Fun, Superficial, Glamorous

  Source: deadline.com

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• I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

  Tom Chatfield

  Ideas, Games, Broken

  "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Empowering, Challenges, Answers

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

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• Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

  Matt Chandler

  Cities, Needs, Sin

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• The irony here is that the Latino left had criticized the conservative movement for years that they were not doing outreach to the Latino community. Now that the conservative movement is doing outreach and engaging in the Latino community on a national scale, they're criticizing us for that too. You can't have it both ways.

  Daniel Garza

  Years, Community, Movement

  "Being Moody: Inside the battle for Latino voters" by Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2015.

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• Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.

  Gary Hamel

  Past, Games, Creating

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.

  Scott Adams

  Silly, Technology, People

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• Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

  Howard Zehr

  Art, Responsibility, College

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• The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

  Ted Kooser

  Beautiful, Ordinary World, Way

  Ted Kooser (2007). “The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• We have not always been in sync on every issue in terms of our core values, in terms of her integrity, her truthfulness, her thoughtfulness, [Angela Merkel] doing her homework, knowing her facts, her commitment to looking out for the interests of the German people first, but recognizing that part of good leadership on behalf of the nation requires engaging the world as a whole, and participating effectively in multilaterally institutions, I think she's been outstanding.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Commitment, Thinking

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.

  Curtis Hanson

  Book, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Nasty, Personal Attacks

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. They've had a little bit of a more muscular public response. Now, they haven't been satisfying or really meaningful in any country yet. But they have been engaging.

  Edward Snowden

  Meaningful, Country, Eye

  "Edward Snowden at FutureFest: the full interview". Interview with Geoff Mulgan, www.nesta.org.uk. 2015.

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• I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

  Judd Apatow

  Self Esteem, World, Way

  Interiew with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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