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Quotes About Engagement

To translate a book is to enter into a relationship with it, to approach and accompany it, to know it intimately, word by word, and to enjoy the comfort of its company in return.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Work is no longer challenging.
~ John Belushi
In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.
~ John Catsimatidis
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right
~ John Dos Passos
We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.
~ John F. Kerry
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.
~ John Green
Work isn't really work for me.
~ John Kluge
People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.
~ John Masefield
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
~ John Ruskin
Processes don't do work, people do
~ John Seely Brown
If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story
~ Jonathan Gottschall
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
~ Jonathan Sacks
I've always put myself intensely into my work.
~ Josefina Vázquez Mota
I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.
~ Judd Nelson
Work certainly does help fill a void.
~ Judi Dench
I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work as I am in reading a book. I want to be electrified by the films I do.
~ Julianne Moore
Work out problems in person, not on e-mail.
~ Karin Ireland
Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.
~ Kate Upton
a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
~ Katherine Paterson
It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.
~ Kelly Lynch
I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.
~ Kesh
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
~ Khaled Hosseini