Engagement Quotations | Page 3

Adolescents are hard; it takes long term engagement and support. We just try to build a support system, or maybe just plant a seed. At the time they may not believe or understand what we are telling them but later it can click. Some end up back here, sure, but some don't.

approached at a high rate of speed and then conducted activity that in itself was suspicious. There were individuals hanging outside with what looked to be a weapon. It stopped and immediately put itself in reverse. Again suspicious activity. Our soldiers on the scene used established rules of engagement and all the training received ... (and they) decided that it was appropriate to engage that particular car. And as a result of that the driver was indeed killed and the passenger was hurt by shards of glass.

As far as this process of engagement is concerned... there had been back-channel contacts for decades, and now a lot started appearing in the newspapers as well.... But we felt that the time has come that we must go public.

The business of America must be more than just business, and engagement must be through more than just the cash register... Real engagement sees the Chinese people as real people, people like us, people with aspirations, with hopes, people who aspire to walk the path of freedom.

This is not a day for the hard word, ... This is a day for trying to absorb what has happened, giving Ian Paisley the space to absorb it also and put it to the two governments. They have to create the place where engagement takes place.

This is not your typical math class. There is more activity and more engagement with the students, and a lot more time is spent.

This agreement with the Warner Bros. Television Group and Fox goes beyond video content. It is about creating a multimedia, interactive engagement with the audience.

They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.

Although Valentine's Day drove up traffic in several categories versus the previous month, those categories actually experienced declines when compared to February of the prior year. Conversely, heavy interest in the 2006 Winter Olympics propelled the Sports category to a 16 percent traffic gain and 32 percent increase in engagement over February 2005. It appears that the Olympics took away mindshare from Valentine's Day during the middle part of the month, possibly resulting in softer sales for Valentine's Day retailers.

A lot of the early engagement we have had has been with nontraditional PC vendors, although there is a lot of interest from traditional PC vendors as well. It ideally brings the best of what a Windows PC is and marries it to what the best of a very capable consumer electronic device is.

It is safe to assume that there is some price sensitivity, but the diamond engagement ring isn't going anywhere.

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!'

It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

The new vision of the department is to attract external funding, to attract majors and to make the whole student engagement a reality.

Students have a tremendous amount to give to this effort, and their idealism and energy is needed in the Gulf. These young people are recognizing the importance of being citizens, not simply spectators, and their growing engagement in hurricane relief bodes very well for our nation.

That is not the type of engagement that we're talking about.

It's, it's really been grim. I mean they realize that this is probably the biggest political crisis they've faced in the President's tenure. I think what they're trying to create now after two weeks is a level of engagement and urgency that the President created after three days, just three days after the 9/11 attacks. It's a major challenge.

The World Health Organization had said, with the backing of almost every development and health agency in the world, that drug resistant TB was too expensive, too difficult and too cost ineffective to treat in poor countries, ... When Partners in Health started with this campaign, there were only several hundred patients in the world getting treatment. Now, there are many thousands in 26 countries who are receiving this treatment and are being saved from a virtual death sentence because of the engagement of Partners In Health with the World Health Organization.

These petitions are just the beginning of a process for engagement of the citizens, and they're very effective.

The needs of the Lebanese and regional economy are changing dramatically, and young people must adjust to the market and opportunities for enterprise that require education institutions and curriculum to adapt. Business and education partnerships are central to this process, and IBLF is pleased to have facilitated more strategic engagement of leading employers.

India's engagement is purely self- interested. But, along with the engagement of the rest of the world, it could help to change things in Burma, though it will take a long time. Sanctions and isolationism just mean that the military backs into itself and gets xenophobic.

I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

If one of our troops has a malfunction or runs out of ammunition, he or she can still continue the engagement with opposition weaponry if they know how to use it.

I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course of their lives, their jobs, their creative works, and their identities over the course of a decade. Much of this increased freedom is thanks to economic engagement by the West.

If our engagement on Haiti is episodic it won't be successful, especially at this point.

If you look back at lessons learned over the last several years, there are arguments that could be made that there were situations where quality may have suffered because the engagement partner was compensated for the wrong things - not necessarily for the quality of their work, but because of new business they brought in, how happy they kept the client, and so on.

In Sweden, the guy wears an engagement ring, too.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

In my view, it would have been appropriate for our engagement team to discard, destroy, shred confidential client information that was unrelated to the issue at hand.

Civic engagement is very important. We all live here together and we need to look out for one another.

Canada needs to take the human rights engagement with China to a concrete level and move beyond some of the very vague, general, easy platitudes we've heard in the past.

Behind search advertising's great success is self-targeting users revealing their interests by the keywords they enter. As with search, self-targeting rather than media manipulation is the key to engagement marketing or behavioral advertising.

By re-establishing the connection between schools and communities, we believe more effective schools and healthier neighborhoods will be created. Being involved in that type of positive action is what Xavier's commitment to community engagement is all about.

By providing full visibility into engagement performance, Productivity Insight demonstrates our commitment to be accountable for our results. As our strategic platform for complex outsourcing engagements, Productivity Insight provides tangible access to Keane's best practices, allowing us to enforce rigorous management disciplines, ensure consistency across engagements and global delivery teams, and drive continuous process improvement efforts.

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

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

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

I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.

I'd say that there is certainly a move toward a form of filmmaking that is political with a small p -- has a degree of engagement with the world at large,

I am proud of all that we have achieved at Sun. This is a decision I have considered carefully over the past year. As we are marching down the path back to profitability, and have, for the most part completed our massive product and customer engagement transitions, I believe I have accomplished what I set out to do.

However, if you backtrack to the point of why I did this, I did this in accordance with the rules of engagement and the command-control structure that I was working under.

For now, perhaps the only goal all parties can agree on is avoiding a crisis, but more meaningful engagement is needed if, in the long run, North Korea is not to loom as a flash point in Sino-U.S. relations.

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.

There is no marriage without engagement

The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

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.

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

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.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

Death cancels all engagements.

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

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

You can often find the best information about family needs through their communities of faith. The connections we're making assure engagement of the entire community in the recovery process.

The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

Alliances are temporary engagement periods and are short of a merger, but they get in the way of the business and are distracting from bigger and better things.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The engagement of the EU and China is total. We are going to vote together on the resolution.

The engagement of NATO is reduced to training and only training, ... We have made clear that we don't want to see German soldiers in Iraq.

The guy threatened to stab her with a pair of scissors. That's pretty violent. Thankfully, she gave up the wedding ring, gave up the engagement ring. I know it's a tough thing to do, but it's a better outcome than if she had tried to fight.

The Indian side sees the visit as the culmination of that process. From now on, we want to make sure there is sustained and continuous engagement with Bangladesh.

A lot of times, people will get down on the situation with the unions and with the UAW. But this wouldn't have worked without good engagement at the local level with the UAW. They understand that improving quality and productivity is important for their long-term success as well. It's been a real team sport.

All this suggests a deeper engagement between India and the US. These cultural connections are sure to build more harmony between the two nations.

The Chinese counterparts made clear that their engagement in the region was focused primarily on commercial, trade and economic issues, and wasn't politically-oriented.

Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

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

The dependency of organizations on the engagement and productivity of its workforce makes attention to human capital during organizational change a critical priority.

The level of engagement wouldn't have gone away. If he was going to be an activist, he would have been all the way an activist. If he was going to be a father, he would have been all the way a father.

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.

The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed - with energy and engagement - and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.