Quotes About Engagement

If I can reach a half-million people with the click of a button, that's more powerful than finding half of a million people to give a dollar to.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

It's not about creating something that eight billion people would like. It's about creating something and being able to reach the maybe, like, one million people that would like it a lot.

The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.

It's more important to have the one million diehard fans than to have 54 million people who aren't necessarily fans, or they might have liked one thing you said or one video.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

Believe it or not, a lot of people watch social media. I have 1.5 million people on Instagram, 2.5 million people on Twitter: that is how many people are watching whatever I do.

I'm as happy entertaining one person as I am entertaining a million people.

I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

What I've learned is that the audience is constantly rotating. Just because it feels like I've said it, there are millions and millions of people that have still never heard of it.

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

I'm not one of them who will get up and mime - I want to completely perform.

Really think about the way you interact with people, whether it's in person or on the Internet. You have to be very mindful.

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

I am growing with my audience. When I made my debut, I was 24, and they have grown up with me. They are with me with each choice of mine.

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

The film industry does not interest me greatly. The people, I don't mingle with them much. I meet them when I have to.

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.