Engagement Quotes

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. (Susan Sontag)
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. View quote
Kerry Washington
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.. View quote
Bruce Lee
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. View quote
Edmund Burke
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. View quote
Oscar Wilde
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. View quote
Oscar Wilde
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence. View quote
Jack Welch
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. (Jane Fonda)
By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain? View quote
Thucydides
I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement. View quote
Mwai Kibaki
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go. View quote
Martha Beck
Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. View quote
Gabrielle Roy
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. View quote
William Westmoreland
I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement? View quote
Albert Wynn
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. (Brendon Burchard)
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William. View quote
Caitlin Moran
Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. View quote
Christian Marclay
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me. View quote
Dinah Sheridan
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. View quote
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen