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Quotes About Engagement

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
~ Steven Spielberg
The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.
~ Gerald May
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.
~ Patricia Piccinini
As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
~ Charles Stanley
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
~ Alexander Woollcott
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
~ Ezra Koenig
I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present
~ Maya Lin
Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
~ David Bosch
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
~ Elliot W. Eisner
Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
~ Jason Mraz
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
~ Jerome Robbins
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
~ Courteney Cox
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.
~ Austin Kleon
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
~ Anish Kapoor
Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.
~ Jane McGonigal
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.
~ W. Edwards Deming
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver
When I work I forget all the rest.
~ Claude Monet
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
~ Shane Claiborne
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
~ Ricardo Semler