Quotes About Engagement

For me, it's always this constant battle and search when I'm out on stage as to where and when do I really open myself up to the people that are there. How do I let myself feel present in the space, and how do I allow myself to get into the music and interact with the band members.

I am willing to run anywhere that the Green Party and our membership thinks it makes sense for me to run.

I run a meme type of account on Twitter; I know what my audience is looking for.

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.

Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people that care about a certain thing.

If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

I memorize stuff that I know works, and then 25 percent is just feeding off the audience and going where they want to go. Sometimes things flop. That's where the jokes come in.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

When I announced my focus on mental health as first lady of Georgia in 1971, none but five mental health advocates in the state wanted to be involved with the issue.

I've got the same mentality every time I step on the floor - play my hardest and just be locked in.

I think an all-around type of mentality is the thing that I have tried to have always. I am not too happy with myself when I start to float around and just be out there.

It's like, every game you never know how a defender is going to play you. You have to be mentally focused.

I have to be mentally right every time I take the floor.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

When I get on a course that's not very good, that's not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

One thing about computers and iPhones is they're making people mentally lazy.

You can see when people's locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not.

For many years, I was not mentally ready for marriage.

There is a real danger that kids won't engage with cricket when there are so many other opportunities to use their time in other sports, not to mention video-gaming, and generally long-form cricket doesn't turn them on.

There's nothing worse for a mentor than being asked generic questions that anyone could answer. They want to ensure that their time is having an impact on you.

You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.

People think you can find a mentor by walking up to somebody and saying, 'Hey, be my mentor,' or by sending an e-mail to someone you've never e-mailed before and saying, 'Hey, I want you to mentor me.' But, mentorship really happens in rooms that you're actually in.