Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

David Bohm

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Andrew Greeley

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

Andy Stanley

Don't be fair, be engaged.

I was looking for a way to engage students a little more directly, and involving them in a process gives more purpose to their drawing.

I would not oppose someone who thinks he can do better and engage with the club.

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

Neil Young

What you'll see in these new titles are things that evoke feelings, ... They won't engage you only interactively, but they'll strive to move you emotionally.

He remains fully engaged in the issues facing the state right now.

Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.

We've got to play better. We've got to engage our minds and play more with our minds and our spirits.

We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.

He was getting to the point where he was going to engage the rubber like he does during the season. That was the step we wanted to take today. He took that step and he felt great.

Martin Seligman

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Oliver Luck

I think what he's done is phenomenal, winning three medals in a sport he wasn't engaged in four years ago. It's a perfect sort of symbol for what we are trying to do, which is start something new.

It goes with my engagement ring very nicely and I love it.

Lee Myung-bak

Fortunately, when Korea was struck by the 1997/8 financial crisis, that was a good opportunity for us to engage in fundamental reforms and strengthen our financial structure. As a result, our financial regulatory structure and regime have been very much strengthened.

If that happens, the transmission could engage into first or second gear unexpectedly.

I would characterize it differently. We think that it's a positive development. It's a message to all sides that time has come to engage in serious negotiations.

Gail Sheehy

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys.

John O'Donohue

We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture.

Ciaran Hinds

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

Andrew Lo

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

Anthony Carmona

As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy.

Scott McNealy

We see some predatory pricing practices that only monopolists could engage in,

We see people engaged about Washington, and not in a positive way. I was surprised by these numbers.

Michael Sandel

The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.

We need to listen to our kids and provide something that will engage them.

We have met with them, we have talked with them, we have provided them information, ... We have been engaged regularly and consistently to ... respond to their requests for information, to engage with them and to help facilitate their work.

Jeffrey Zeldman

When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.