Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bram Fischer

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

Daniel H. Pink

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Aristotle

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

Brendon Burchard

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

John Key

I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

Ciaran Hinds

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

Too often, the Security Council's engagement is inadequate, selective, or after the fact.

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.

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.

Al Franken

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

Our story is unique. Our engagement is unique. Our ring is unique. So our wedding should reflect us.

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

Our recent engagement with the union has been conducted in a constructive and open atmosphere, and I look forward to this continuing.

Martin Freeman

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Jiang Zemin

patriotic and combat-ready officers and soldiers must make themselves ready for at least limited engagement with U.S. firepower.

Martin Seligman

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

People are realizing that learning is proportional to interaction and engagement with the subject.

William Temple

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

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.

Chuck Hagel

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

We want any engagement like that to be totally lopsided, one-sided, dominating. And this is the kind of weaponry that does it.

Brotherhood is not only the engagement of serving one another; it is the purpose of bettering one another.

The rules of engagement are established. There have been one or two slips but nothing politically fatal.

Evan Wolfson

There is no marriage without engagement

Howard Schultz

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

P. J. O'Rourke

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

Paul Muldoon

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Jason Miller

Putting a photo into your LinkedIn stream increases engagement up to 90%.

Mark Strand

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.