Engaged Quotes - Page 20

• I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

  Tom Hooper

  Block, Thinking, Self

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Devil, May

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• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, War, Dying

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• I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Country, People, Groups

  "More Caroline: Spoke to Hillary, won't run if not selected". Interview With Ben Smith, www.politico.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Kids, Differences

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• All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Teaching, Essence

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Peace, Struggle

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Freedom, Fear

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Ideas, Icons

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• Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

  Ellen G. White

  Angel, Men, Satan

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• Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

  Olivia Wilde

  Powerful, Essence, World

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• After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

  Bob Woodward

  Memories, War, Wiping Out

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Essence, Ideas

  "Everyday wisdom" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2008.

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• The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

  Howard Rheingold

  Horse, Technology, Long

  "Look Who's Talking". www.wired.com. January 01, 1999.

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• The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

  James Joyce

  Weed, Mouths, Cylinders

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.546, First Avenue Editions

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• The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Humility, Views

  "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School".

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• The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

  Terry Pratchett

  Knives, Murder, Discworld

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Couple, Party, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2009). “Cranford”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.

  Joe Meno

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

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• I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Dream, Art, Mind

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.12, Quirk Books

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• We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

  John Green

  Real, Games, Play

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• Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.

  Peter Kreeft

  Psych, Two, Historical

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.19, Ignatius Press

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• I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

  Maya Angelou

  World, Want, Let Me

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 02, 2010

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• I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

  Aimee Mann

  Thinking

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