Engagement Quotes - Page 19

• She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our four children, their families and many other people in a life full of engagement with Australians from all walks of life.

  Gough Whitlam

  Love, Children, Years

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

  Kofi Annan

  Helping Others, Thinking, Volunteer

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• I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

  David Ogilvy

  Beach, Humorous, Successful

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

  Robert Frost

  Gold, Jewelry, Innocent

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.

  Kofi Annan

  Success, Strong, Fighting

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• If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ dwell within you, and having placed all your faith and trust in Him, spread this hope around you. Make choices that demonstrate your faith.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Jesus, Choices

  Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

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• I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Gratitude, Grateful

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.135

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• Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals, the experience of positive emotional feelings, and a sense of spirituality that connects people to things larger than themselves.

  Ed Diener

  Positive, Emotional, People

  Ed Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener (2011). “Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.

  Christopher Locke

  Real, Emotion, Advertising

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• TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about.

  Christopher Locke

  Tvs, Emotion, Remember

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• When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Survival, Culture, Problem

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• In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

  Donna Tartt

  Order, Long, Work Out

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• Just because youre of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  Famke Janssen

  Sex, Differences, Want

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• The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

  Jean Paul

  Stars, Heart, Space

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.473

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• Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

  Arthur Miller

  Happy, Trust, Communication

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• I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

  Ayn Rand

  Years, Games, Political

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• We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge the Good Spirit continually. We cannot do this unless we let the Spirit of God rule in temporalities as well as in spiritual matter.

  Daniel H. Wells

  Spiritual, Matter, Almighty

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• A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Communication, Amplify, Information

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• In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Opportunity, Self, Freedom Of Speech

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• Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  Motivation, Mean, Skills

  Thomas Ehrlich (2000). “Civic Responsibility and Higher Education”, p.6, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Leadership, People, Empowerment

  Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Simply Managing: What Managers Do — and Can Do Better”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Communication, Organization

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  Dana Spiotta

  Book, Thinking, People

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• It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Together, Affection

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.95, Hackett Publishing

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