Best 310 quotes in «engagement quotes» category

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

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

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.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

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

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

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.

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

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.

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

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

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.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican

Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

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.

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

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

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

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

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

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.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.