Engagement Quotes - Page 22

• You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?

  Jessica Day George

  Father, Army, Men

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of the Midnight Ball”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Judging, Groups

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• Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

  Jennifer Estep

  Jealous, Challenges, Band

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Leadership, Style, Intention

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• Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Cancer, Commitment, Views

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• Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Metrics, Return

  "How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business And What You Can Do About It" by Simon Mainwaring, www.fastcompany.com. June 6, 2011.

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• In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Government, Faces, Aggression

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• Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

  Robert Nozick

  Survival, Able, Cooperation

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• Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Mistake, Decision

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• On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Six, Seven Days, Use

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Mistake, Thinking

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

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• Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Relief, Entertainment

  "Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show" by Amanda Petrusich, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2017.

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• In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

  Carter Heyward

  Love, God, Respect

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• We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

  Michael W. Smith

  Three, Half, Firsts

  "Michael W. Smith: Two Decades as God's Instrument". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

  Roger Mahony

  Decision, Grace, Holy

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• I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

  Bram Fischer

  Duty, Dangerous, Circumstances

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• So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

  Katherine Harris

  Florida, Talking, Support

  "Katherine Harris Discusses Her Senate Run". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2005.

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Adults, Affair

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Challenges, Working Together

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• The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

  Billy Bragg

  Artist, Thinking, Important

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• It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

  Philip Gibbs

  War, Victory, Battle

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• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  Sallust

  Art, Names, May

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• But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

  Julius Streicher

  Facts, Murder, Engaged

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• They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

  Zebulon Pike

  Horse, Night, Spy

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.186

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