Engagement Quotes - Page 18

• People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, People, Stimulation

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• Find an organization, shoot them an email, call them up, find them on Facebook and say "Hey, I want to volunteer." And that first step could lead to a whole life of engagement. It could be a pretty exciting ride.

  Avi Lewis

  Organization, Volunteer, Email

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Authority, Empirical Evidence, Worthy

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• Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.

  Robert H. Jackson

  War, Power, Long

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• It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Optimistic, America

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.329, Crown Forum

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• A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Order, Long, Political

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

  Catherine Wilson

  Art, Powerful, Grief

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The public is really not kept abreast, and our leaders are not clear and forthright about what the terms of engagement are right now - that we really have no choice except to undertake a wartime scale mobilization, but a mobilization knowing that we can actually fix this. It's only a disaster if we continue to plunge headlong into the problem, which is only accelerating in spite of everything that the Democrats have been willing to say and do about it.

  Jill Stein

  Knowing, Choices, Leader

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• And there are some - Bernie [Ecclestone] and others - who are embracing new technologies. When Sky UK started to broadcast there was an argument that audience would come down because it is pay TV. But the actual quality of the production and the use of technology and the engagement of the viewer is much better than it ever was. The product is simply better.

  Martin Sorrell

  Technology, Sky, Quality

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• [Barack] Obama's out there saying it's the number one national security threat [climate change], and he's got his Joint Chiefs of Staff out there planning American battles, military engagements on that basis.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Numbers, Battle

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Opportunity, Missing, Chinese

  "Mo Ibrahim: The 'Bill Gates Of Africa'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2013.

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• If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Action

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• I am impressed by the progress the RNC has made in the last year to engage Latino communities across the country. I look forward to continue working alongside Chairman Priebus and Co-Chair Day to ensure that the party's year-round engagement effort continues to grow and reach new Latino neighborhoods.

  Luis Fortuno

  Country, Party, Opportunity

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• Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

  John W. Snow

  Successful, Views, Citizens

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• I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, World, Way

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• Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Dream, Love Is

  Khalil Gibran, “Love Is A Magic Ray”

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• Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

  James A Bellanca

  Educational, Teaching, Strategic

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• Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

  Brian Solis

  Empathy, Marketing, Helpful

  FaceBook post by Brian Solis from Dec 27, 2014

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• A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

  John Goodlad

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• [Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Mean, What Matters

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Next Day

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Memorable, Elements

  Remarks by President Obama at the University of Queensland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2014.

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• Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging.

  Rob Terry

  Practice, Forever, Challenges

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