Engaged Quotes

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

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.

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.

I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.

The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.

It was like watching an angsty hormone-fueled train wreck and firmly cemented my resolve to be at least twenty-five before I considered getting hitched.

Telling people what to do is showmanship.Showing people how to do it is leadership.

[On action filled leadership] Telling your team what to do is showmanship.Showing people how to do it is leadership. Leading for the purpose of visual effect will not accomplish the vision.

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

The heart power once engaged and awakened is capable of achieving and realising the things to make your life wonderful.

A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour

My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story.

She is not my mistress, ' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and the same thing, ' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir, ' replied Dantes.

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

I'm not going to let you go " He was silent for a moment. "Carly " he said gently. "Remember when we were first engaged