Engaging Quotes - Page 17

• Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

  Emily Saliers

  Grateful, Opportunity, Creative

  "Emily Saliers: Growing as an artist, helping the environment, and doing things that scare her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.

  John Friend

  Spiritual, Intimate Relationships, Practice

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• I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Religious, Vocabulary, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I am doing it with a concrete footnoted historical context.

  Naomi Wolf

  People, Historical, Care

  "NEWS & POLITICS Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.

  Kevin Keck

  Jobs, Creativity, Mirrors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

  Shane Carruth

  Landscape, Narrative, Coming Back

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• I love engaging with the fans. It's fun.

  Charles Halford

  Fun, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.

  Guido Molinari

  Ideas, Space, Brain

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• It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person onstage is actually really interesting and emotionally engaging. I'm trying to not just be the person standing on the outside and looking at something, but to actually be it, in a way.

  Jenny Hval

  Believe, Hair, Long

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.

  David Lyons

  Hitting, Faces, Audience

  Source: collider.com

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• Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

  Adam Fletcher

  Meaningful, School, Commitment

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• Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

  Charles Yu

  Mother, Past, Anchors

  FaceBook post by Charles Yu from May 11, 2014

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• Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

  Charles J. Shields

  Book, Reality, Wells

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• Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Bird, Form

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.232, University of Virginia Press

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• Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!

  Ethan Nadelmann

  Marijuana, Opportunity, Media

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• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Intelligent, News, Use

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• Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.

  William Cohen

  Real, Eugenics, Volcanoes

  William Cohen's remarks at the news briefing of U.S. Department of Defense, April 28, 1997.

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• Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

  Eric Maisel

  Hope, World, Pick Yourself Up

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• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  Elizabeth Barton

  Quilts, Color, Issues

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• It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

  Jose Saramago

  Mean, Echoes, Littles

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• In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Socialist Government, Murder, Vulnerable

  Mark Kurlansky (2010). “The Basque History of the World”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Two, Degrees

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.122

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• Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

  Janet Robertson

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!

  N.K. Jemisin

  Adventure, Character, Clouds

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