Quotes About Engagement

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

You train your man to do nothing.

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?