Top 84 Engage Yourself Quotes
#1. If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
Stephane Hessel
#2. You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.
Bruce Springsteen
#3. Always engage yourself positively with situations.
Dalai Lama
#4. While you wait for your dream job, you can engage yourself with the available job.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
Ted Danson
#6. You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#7. Seek to engage yourself in passionate reading.
You will gain better understanding of life .
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
Toby Jones
#9. But when you fight evil every day, stare it in the face, engage it, learn to think like it, you face a choice:Be defeated by the limits of your own morality, or summon a beast in yourself that obeys none.
Karen Marie Moning
#10. I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
Jeff Bridges
#11. Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.
Josh Lanyon
#12. The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.
Tom M. Wiseman
#13. The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.
Christopher Galvin
#14. In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization to feel engaged, connected, purposeful, ready to give, to engage, to care, to learn.
Rebecca Solnit
#15. Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
Noreena Hertz
#16. Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#17. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
Farshad Asl
#18. We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.
John Paul Caponigro
#19. For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.
Rick Larsen
#20. Being able to engage my creativity in a way that makes a difference inspires me more than anything.
Romany Malco
#21. Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently ... a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise.
Shahzia Sikander
#22. The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.
Andy Stanley
#23. The Immortals were about to engage the Impregnable. The unbeaten would fight the unbeatable.
Bernard Cornwell
#24. Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.
Pierre Levy
#25. We must all commit Sister Monica Joan to our prayers. We must seek God's help. But I will also engage a good lawyer." I
Jennifer Worth
#26. Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.
Ron Paul
#27. If you find that you are frequently doing battle with or feeling seduced by such people, look to see what old problems you are trying to resolve by allowing yourself to engage in what are, essentially, impossible relationships.
Sandy Hotchkiss
#28. All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
Jane Alexander
#29. When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.
Epictetus
#30. When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.
Brian Tracy
#31. I do think that it's a challenge for me or for anybody who has had certain iconic things happen to them in their career to re-engage people and say that there's still more to discover. And also to have that confidence in yourself that you still have more to bring.
Joan Osborne
#32. My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?
Ani DiFranco
#33. You have to be in yourself, but engage with the world and see what's going on.
Julianne Moore
#34. You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton
#35. When you feel distracted, engage in self-talk. Ask yourself: "What am I focusing on?" Return to the present moment. What do you need to accomplish? Check into what you need and check out of what you do not need. Talk
Mike Cernovich
#36. If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable and will engage the reader's interest, go for it. Make sure you have something unique to offer. I enjoy the work of writers who give you something you won't find anywhere else.
Joel McIver
#37. There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.
David Brooks
#38. Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.
Mark Driscoll
#39. When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea ...
Adam Grant
#40. Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
Florence Nightingale
#41. The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
Theodore Zeldin
#42. Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
Wayne Dyer
#43. Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially ... just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.
Susan Cooper
#44. When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.
George Robinson
#45. Here's a simple way you can engage your intuition. When you are about to say something and you're not sure if you want to say it, ask yourself, "What is my motivation?" When you check your motivation you engage non-physical guidance and you will not be alone in you assessment.
Gary Zukav
#46. the master of this person of an excellent disposition. And is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness,and the mildness of his disipline... added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me desirious to engage him.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#47. Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences
Albert Bandura
#48. If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
Ethan Zuckerman
#49. At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#50. Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
Daphne Koller
#51. Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.
Carol Roth
#52. Whether electing abstinence from sex or choosing to engage in sex with multiple lovers, sexual empowerment is about making decisions which are right and safe and true for you.
Miya Yamanouchi
#53. If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
James L. Buckley
#54. If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.
Milton Friedman
#55. Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
Sara Genn
#56. I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
Patrick DeWitt
#57. Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
Caroline Knapp
#58. The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
Sandra Cisneros
#59. If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.
Orson Scott Card
#60. When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
Bill Crawford
#61. Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
#62. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.
Steve Hagen
#63. When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.
Mark Bradford
#64. HubSpot's CRM and Sidekick are perfect for companies that want to transform how they attract, engage, and delight prospects, customers and leads and want sales technology that matches today's buying process.
Brian Halligan
#65. I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.
Jeremy Corbyn
#66. To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
Ed Stetzer
#67. A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.
Ashley Judd
#68. You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?
Noah Hawley
#69. Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.
Susana Martinez
#70. Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to engage in social media. I do use Instagram under my production company's name, but that's it.
Marc Forster
#72. You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
Jeremy Heimans
#73. When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.
Gwen Ifill
#75. We are ill-fated in that our society demands we engage in unworthy conversations and dances in order to seem courteous, and yet such actions are ultimately vulgar.
Shannon Hale
#76. Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.
David Hayter
#77. The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.
Michael Sandel
#78. To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.
E. O. Wilson
#79. You do this, perhaps, with a good intention,' said the Cardinal, 'but, in my opinion, it were wiser in you, and perhaps better for you, not to engage in so ridiculous a contest with a Fool.'
Thomas More
#80. It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, be able to evade them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.
Sun Tzu
#81. There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
Philipp Meyer
#82. Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border. By
Walter D. Mignolo
#83. Every day at Skype, I am able to connect with employees from around the world and engage with them on a level that just is not possible through a conference call or email.
Tony Bates
#84. Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Richard Carlson
