Simon Sinek
Author, Motivational Speaker
"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."
Engagement quotes
Engagement
240 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering."
Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"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."
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"I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement."
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"Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue."
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"You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes."
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"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."
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"Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials."
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"A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other."
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"To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Putting a photo into your LinkedIn stream increases engagement up to 90%."
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"This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody."
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"Love is a little haven of refuge from the world."
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"Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"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!'"
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"Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life."
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"An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be."
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"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."
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"Better ramp up your virtual relationships. Companies think omni channel is the correct answer. This is not enough. The information explosion for consumers makes 24/7 and full and complete engagement possible."
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