Engagement Quotes - Page 16

• I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Latin, America, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.86, Multnomah

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• In Burma, economic engagement enriches the regime, as the economy is controlled by the regime. Economic engagement benefits this elite, not ordinary people. The money is spent on the military, stolen by the elite.

  Zoya Phan

  Military, People, Ordinary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

  Doc Childre

  Anger, Mean, Emotional

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• By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, Government, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can incorporate diversity into a movement for inclusive growth. New modes of democratic engagement, especially through using e-governance are allowing greater access to fundamental rights for all our people.

  Narendra Modi

  Rights, Voice, People

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• Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Revolution, Begging

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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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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• I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Teaching, Writing, Years

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Sleep, Goal

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• But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. It's all one and the same. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement.

  Michael Hastings

  Wall, Names, Differences

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just want to answer questions, but a lot of times, all of a sudden you drift away, and you don't remember you're on the mic, and you're in something real.

  Marc Maron

  Real, Remember You, Remembers You

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Actors, Want

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• If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Ideas, World, Helping

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• I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone's head can be freeing. Partly because there's no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but I think we're all in the position of writing students now. Very few people are going around with a day-to-day engagement with the short story.

  Lorin Stein

  Regret, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.

  Paul Bloom

  Thinking, Compassion, Shoes

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.

  Paul Bloom

  Jobs, Children, Pain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road killings, killings on the road when someone is trying to pass a convoy and they get shot. Or if a roadside bomb goes off, the soldiers just start shooting in all directions.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Soldier, Everyday, Tragedy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I also draw strength from so many people that I meet through my speaking engagements and my life and when I feel the joy that gets ignited when kindred spirits are together. It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  People, Giving, Joy

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Style, Stories, Way

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my life thinking as deeply and carefully and reflectively as I could about the nature of reality and our human engagement with it, and that taking a philosophical approach was the best way to go about doing this.

  L.A. Paul

  Philosophical, Reality, College

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about a defense lawyer whose name is Samantha Brinkman. And I am reviewing speaking engagement opportunities.

  Marcia Clark

  Book, Opportunity, Reality

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.

  James Carroll

  War, Distance, Cities

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• In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Country, Decision

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• To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

  Eric Williams

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Differences

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