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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. -- St. Jerome
I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver. -- Russell Simmons
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. -- Anna Freud
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. -- Bill Murray
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God. -- Saint Francis de Sales
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. -- Alice Walker
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. -- Andrew Lo
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology. -- Howard Rheingold
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. -- David Bohm
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. -- Bob Woodward
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' -- Max Planck
Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless. -- Jackson Katz
For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters. -- James Wan
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. -- Jane Austen
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. -- Sharon Salzberg
Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left. -- Joshua Chamberlain
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth. -- Cynthia Ozick
Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not? -- Queen Latifah
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. -- Alice Sebold
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience. -- Lester Holt
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. -- Earl Nightingale
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. -- Tom Hooper
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. -- Brendon Burchard
Don't be fair, be engaged. -- Andy Stanley
I would say I'm humanly engaged. -- Juliette Binoche
Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged. -- Aliza Sherman
My baby love and I are ENGAGED!!! -- Evan Ross
Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged. -- Penney Peirce
Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged? -- Neil Patrick Harris
I just liked the idea of being engaged. -- Belinda Carlisle
World don't need chiefs. We need engaged, talented leaders. -- Luiz Bolognesi
We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date. -- Michael W. Smith
I am busily engaged in study of the Bible. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is better to engaged you mind on positive thoughts. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man. -- James McGreevey
He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing -- Mary Ann Shaffer
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. -- Susan Sontag
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. -- Timothy R. Clark
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character. -- David Ogden Stiers
I hate it when my hair is engaged in unauthorized activities. -- Paula Poundstone
I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. -- Jim Crace
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. -- Harold Rosenberg
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!... -- Rumi
I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged. -- Aimee Mann
A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander. -- Ardant du Picq
I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage. -- Mandy Moore
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged. -- Laurie Anderson
In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first. -- Garson Kanin
Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority. -- Cedric Richmond
Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked. -- Beatrix Campbell
The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged, -- Max Gunther
The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence. -- Mark Nepo
We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart. -- Timothy Keller
Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged. -- St. Jerome
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Money is only a byproduct of being engaged in a worthy cause. -- Hyrum W. Smith
Before we got engaged, he never farted. Now it's a second language. -- Caroline Rhea
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart. -- William Wilberforce
Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time. -- Max Lucado
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. -- Melissa Bean
The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer. -- Charles Spurgeon
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. -- Jodi Picoult
A community that is engaged and working together can be a powerful force. -- Idowu Koyenikan
I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood. -- Hugh Hendry
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. -- Frederick Sanger
We were engaged. Not to be married, but in combat. So same thing. -- Jarod Kintz
Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things! -- Robert Falcon Scott
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed. -- James Joyce
We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world. -- Temple Grandin
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach. -- Agatha Christie
...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research -- Tony Blair
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. -- Joseph McCarthy
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain. -- Shawn Achor
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. -- Cormac McCarthy
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation -- John Felstiner
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right. -- William E. Gladstone
To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in. -- Ellen Langer
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are. -- Robert Greene
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. -- Maya Angelou
People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging. -- Jillian Mayer
The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome. -- Gever Tulley
We can only feel happy and fulfilled if we're engaged in our (soul's) purpose. -- Doreen Virtue
If people don't get as engaged as the tea party was, we're going to lose. -- Ezra G. Levin
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. -- Patti Smith
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged. -- Kevin Rudd
I'm not prepared to sacrifice my being engaged in the world for just any relationship. -- Loreena McKennitt
I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged. -- Kirsten Dunst
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. -- Alfred von Tirpitz
It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged. -- Brian Eno
The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country -- John le Carre
To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create. -- Lina Wertmuller
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation. -- Mark Burnett
If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshipped not. -- Confucius
Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation. -- Ben Edwards
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. -- Tom Vilsack
To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks. -- George W. Bush
Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology. -- Simon Mainwaring
I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged. -- Jared Leto
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there. -- Joschka Fischer
Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm. -- Eckhart Tolle
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. -- Paul Di Filippo
I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in. -- Amanda Marcotte
You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much. -- Nikki Gemmell
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. -- Nirmalananda
If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society. -- Jeb Bush
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. -- James Agate
I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards. -- Frank Spotnitz
The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. -- Elliott Abrams

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