Engaging Quotes - Page 15

• That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

  Nick Cave

  Interesting, World, Painful

  Interview with Andrew Dominik, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2013.

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• Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Voice, Challenges

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

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• There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

  Hart Crane

  Careers, Parent, Occupation

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here.

  Neal Stephenson

  Strong, Character, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.

  Neal Stephenson

  Couple, Writing, Epic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Film, Unusual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It is about the Declaration of Independence and the relevance of the document today. And it will be fun and engaging - I promise!

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Fun, Independence, Promise

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Instead of yelling your opinion, or telling people to shut up, or engaging in this clickbait-internet culture, have a dialogue with someone and ask people questions and listen to what they have to say.

  Aziz Ansari

  Yelling, People, Culture

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid, personal about his candid, personal Netflix show". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. November 02, 2015.

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• For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places.

  Dana Spiotta

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Accompany You, Madness, Feels

  Alejandro Jodorowsky (2008). “The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo”, p.183, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Unless you are building a new company from the ground up and can install caring as your businesses' cornerstone, you have to be willing to embark on a completely cultural overhaul so that, like a local mom and pop shop, every employee is comfortable engaging in customer service, and does it authentically.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Mom, Caring, Doe

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.

  Rick Welts

  Lasts, Limits, Conversation

  "A Sports Executive Leaves the Safety of His Shadow Life". Interview with Dan Barry, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2011.

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• I'm starting to believe that part of the solution regarding the devices is that they have a role to play in engaging the customer and keeping our product in front of them during the pre-show. They certainly have a role to play in ticket sales. Inside the movie auditorium, though, during the feature presenation there's no place for them. Every single weekend two out of the top three reasons people contact us are: somebody's being disruptive, with a device most of the time, or a dirty bathroom.

  Gerry Lopez

  Believe, Dirty, Weekend

  Source: deadline.com

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• Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types engaging in pure thought. They are answered by people who are willing to get down into the trenches and grapple with nature. If that means casting your own telescope mirrors, as Herschel did, so be it.

  James Trefil

  Mean, Ivory Tower, Mirrors

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• It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kind, Dangerous, Rhetoric

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because of that it's susceptible to flaws, it is not perfect. Nobody has perfect access to the divine will.

  Mark Durie

  Perfect, Mind, Needs

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Cutting, Moments, Illusion

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• Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

  Maya Harris

  Issues, People, Dimensions

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours

  Tony Robbins

  People, Needs, Meetings

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• If you find common subjects or interests with a prospect, you can establish a business friendship. Ask about a diploma or picture. Your prospect will be glad to talk about what he/she just did or likes to do. Try to captivate him or her in intelligent conversation with engaging questions about their interests. It's obviously better if you're versed in the subject, because that's where rapport is established. Get the prospect to talk about their passions and what makes them happy.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Passion, Intelligent, Trying

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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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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• Fancy computers are engaging in legalized front-running. The profits are clearly coming from the rest of us - our college endowments and our pensions. Why is this legal? What the hell is the government thinking? It's like letting rats into a restaurant.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, College, Thinking

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• I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

  Zainab Salbi

  Believe, I Believe, Should

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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