Engaged Quotes

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

The results of "engaged" companies vs "disengaged" companies are staggering. Getting workers to be more engaging with their coworkers and customers can produce huge results.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.

People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

I've always been heavily engaged with my fans on the internet from day one. That connection's one of the reasons why I've been able to enjoy such longevity in my career.

I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.