While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.
The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.
Most people think of a balanced life in terms of how much time is given to the various sectors of a life. While time is one measure of involvement, I think the critical variable is passion. How energized, fascinated and absorbed are you in each sphere in which you are engaged? They are rarely, and usually only briefly, equal.
Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater. ' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical. '
If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.
It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.
I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
Eventhough you are not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. Whoever you see engaged in search, become her friend and cast your head in front of her, for choosing to be a neighbour of seekers, you become one yourself; protected by conquerors, you will yourself learn to conquer. If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft, Weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in -- often distant places.
World don't need chiefs. We need engaged, talented leaders.
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.
