Quotes About Engagement

#1. Full engagement and full relinquishment in every moment is the dance of dances.

Ross Hostetter

#2. I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

Nalo Hopkinson

#3. We must praise God or live in unreality and poverty. We cannot merely believe in our minds that he is loving or wise or great. We must praise him for those things - and praise him to others - if we are to move beyond abstract knowledge to heart-changing engagement.

Timothy Keller

#4. I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

Katherine Parkinson

#5. Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it.

Janet Hagberg

#6. Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

Andrew Hogue

#7. Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand.

Rosamund Lupton

#8. Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Pauline Collins

#9. Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

Muhammad Yunus

#10. I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

Jared Leto

#11. Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging.

Rob Terry

#12. There weren't many good things to be said or felt about my situation. Not many at all. But the rule is that after any engagement, won or lost, you replay it in you mind to see how much you can learn. So that's what I did ...

Hugh Laurie

#13. Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

Steven Whitney

#14. I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

Malala Yousafzai

#15. We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we get them to do stuff? To me, that's not engagement.

Victor Montori

#16. Non-engagement or retreat can turn certain defeat into victory.

Bryant McGill

#17. My best advice for anyone out there that feels like, 'I don't have a million followers so why should I even give it a shot,' is that it's not about the numbers - it's about the engagement. That's how you can build influence.

Michelle Phan

#18. I was at a speaking engagement for MIT ... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

Russell Johnson

#19. The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#20. I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Rashid Al-Ghannushi

#21. You cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#22. For the love of God, Hanna, where are you?" he yelled.
Across the room she lowered her fruity drink, held up her hand decorated with a beautiful engagement ring, and called out, "Is that what this ring means? That I come to your rescue?"
He nodded fervently, shouting, "Yes!

Christina Lauren

#23. A toast to the engagement on your former fiance and your former best friend. Tell me, how hard did you have to grit your teeth?"
As Lucy refused to answer, he laughed softly. "Forgive me. I don't mean to detract from your noble gesture.

Lisa Kleypas

#24. The application of gaming metaphors in non game contexts to influence behavior, improve motivation and enhance engagement.

Andrzej Marczewski

#25. Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

Ian Hutchinson

#26. The mere consciousness of an engagement will worry an entire day

Charles Dickens

#27. The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Gary Hamel

#28. your level of engagement and enthusiasm will skyrocket when you decide to participate only in projects you can be fully invested in and be a part of from beginning to end.

Brendon Burchard

#29. In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.

Zach McGowan

#30. Hospitals have missed the point that the best way to improve the patient experience is to build better engagement with their employees, who will then provide better service and health care to patients.

Paul Spiegelman

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

Jason Miller

#32. Kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement.

Zadie Smith

#33. People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#34. Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

Simon Mainwaring

#35. The spirit within each human being is a small fragment of the Divine and Eternal, and if we give it the opportunity to speak, it will do so - but only when we keep our engagement to dismiss everyday difficulties, be quiet, and listen.

Faith Baldwin

#36. I bet you didn't have to say a word. I bet those rings were all Ty. Which makes you the only female on the planet who didn't have to give her man some instruction when it came to an engagement ring," Krystal noted correctly and I looked down at her. "He may drink beer but that boy is pure champagne.

Kristen Ashley

#37. It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

Hans Vestberg

#38. I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

Ian K. Smith

#39. Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

Daisaku Ikeda

#40. Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Joseph Joubert

#41. At long last, she gasped out, "It's Seth."
"What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?"
"He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

Richelle Mead

#42. Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.

Qiu Miaojin

#43. As soon as the engagement was announced, the Pack Clans converged and shot the idea of a quiet ceremony out of the water and then kept firing at it until it stopped convulsing and died.

Ilona Andrews

#44. It's one thing to call off an engagement or even a wedding once the invitations are out - it's hard, but it happens. But on the actual day? You're walking, sister. Get yourself down that aisle and do whatever you have to do afterward, you know?

Lauren Weisberger

#45. I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Jane Austen

#46. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Parker J. Palmer

#47. WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.

Julian Assange

#48. Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

Rebecca Solnit

#49. The use of powerful systematic reward procedures to promote increased engagement in target activities may also produce concomitant decreases in task engagement, in situations where neither tangible nor social extrinsic rewards are perceived to be available.7

Alfie Kohn

#50. Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.

Sophie Kinsella

#51. I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

Iman

#52. In Elizabethan England or classical Athens ... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Diane Paulus

#53. Five years, nine months, and a few days. Fifteen months nearly have passed since he vanished, and is there anything so wonderful in an engagement of little more than five years?

Thomas Hardy

#54. When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth.

Simone Campbell

#55. Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry.

Richard Hayne

#56. The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

Dana Spiotta

#57. There was, she noticed, a fragment of frozen pea caught in the setting of her engagement ring.

Robert Galbraith

#58. Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

John Constable

#59. A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an upright position can confirm a sense of self-possession and a quality of engagement.

Amor Towles

#60. On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

Mark Zuckerberg

#61. People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Seth Godin

#62. First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring ... soon after ... comes Suffer ... ring!

Jay Leno

#63. Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

Seth Godin

#64. Georgie noticed she was wearing a small engagement ring.

Rainbow Rowell

#65. If you want engagement, you must engage.

Karen Martin

#66. Cultural engagement in preaching must never be for the sake of appearing "relevant" but rather must be for the purpose of laying bare the listener's life foundations.

Timothy J. Keller

#67. What's more, engagement and flow tend to prompt a virtuous cycle of sorts: we become more motivated and aroused overall, and, consequently, more likely to be productive and create something of value. We even become less likely to commit some of the most fundamental errors of observation

Anonymous

#68. 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.

John Key

#69. Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Daisaku Ikeda

#70. The first step to a kingdom-focused cultural engagement is the recovery of a church that practices church discipline.

Russell D. Moore

#71. Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hoffman

#72. Pleasure is the least consequential ... engagement and meaning are much more important.

Martin Seligman

#73. I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world,

Angela Davis

#74. that simply teaching doctrine or preaching on a matter does not equate to actual ministry. Further engagement is required.

Mark A. Yarhouse

#75. What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Robert D. Putnam

#76. So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#77. BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.

Narendra Modi

#78. Let your internet engagement show your inner beauty through online actions with Netiquette.

David Chiles

#79. When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

John Green

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

Martin Freeman

#81. Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

Christian Marclay

#82. why are you ending our engagement then?"
"Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel)
"I don't understand."
"I know

Jayne Castle

#83. Numerous studies have shown that handwriting notes is simply better for engagement, information retention, and mental health than is writing on digital devices.

David Sax

#84. He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

Neil Gaiman

#85. Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

Jack Welch

#86. The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#87. The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

Alex Johnston

#88. It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.

Brian Solis

#89. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

#90. In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.

Louis Cozolino

#91. The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.

Dan Simmons

#92. A lack of emotional engagement in the affair affirms higher credibility.

Pawan Mishra

#93. The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.

Clara Shih

#94. But what is hard to understand is why the math and science gap launched a massive movement on behalf of girls, and yet a much larger gap in reading, writing, and school engagement created no comparable effort for boys.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#95. The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#96. Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

Nancy Gibbs

#97. The unwritten rule of engagement had been If it looks hostile, shoot it.

Rick Bragg

#98. I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Susan Sontag

#99. In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.

Rachel Kushner

#100. Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Andrew J. Bernstein