Engagement Quotes - Page 25

• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

  James Madison

  Mean, Hands, Promise

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.37, University of Virginia Press

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• Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Discovery, Accomplishment, Mind

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, People, Height

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• Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Assessment, Church

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• Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Military, Commitment, Successful

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• There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Government, Way

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• The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Growth, Important, Mergers

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• Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

  Joichi Ito

  Inspiration, Creativity, Past

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• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Queens, Inspiration, Writing

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• I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

  Herschel Walker

  Inspiration, Giving, Stories

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• Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Decisions You Make, Decision, Who You Are

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• Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Art, Children

  "Michelle Obama's best pop culture moments: From mom dancing to Muppets" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. January 15, 2014.

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• The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Block, Cutting, Cities

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• There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

  Michael Gartner

  Passion, Personality, Decision

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• Two ( or more) people come together and they agree that they should be together for a common purpose and that purpose is to add value to one another. ENGAGEMENTS are partnerships that should ALWAYS be Win-Win.

  John C. Maxwell

  Winning, Two, Common Purpose

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• My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

  Leon Kass

  Jobs, Decision, President

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• It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and just like really honestly being a little bit confused, quite frankly, about Harlem.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Confused, Real, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.

  Peter Clewes

  Building, Architect, Concern

  "Architect Peter Clewes on the Château Laurier expansion". Interview with Shannon Proudfoot, www.macleans.ca. September 21, 2016.

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• We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access a certain part, 5% was mentioned, of the funds in the hands of the institutional investors, domestically, for investment in the real economy. That being an agreement of the Growth and Development Summit, we will engage South African business to see how we can make that a practical thing. So, there is a different set of engagement with local business.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Real, Hands, Agreement

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

  Denis Donoghue

  Would Be, Literature, Imagine

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• Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  War, Reality, Men

  "Modern Gothic Master Seth Grahame-Smith Talks ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ ‘Dark Shadows’". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• The matters I am talking about regarding the ports. That matter has been discussed with the unions, and agreed, and therefore there is no particular reason why there should be a problem about it. We will continue to move like that. We need the engagement of the unions in these processes.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Moving, Talking, Needs

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Empowerment, Enabling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.

  Indira Gandhi

  Opposites, Oil, Doctors

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to just the young protesters occupying a number of American cities, but also the threat it poses to democracy itself. This threat is being exacerbated as a result of the merging of a war-like mentality and neoliberal mode of discipline and education in which it becomes difficult to reclaim the language of obligation, social responsibility and civic engagement.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Responsibility, Cities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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