Quotes About Engagement

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation

I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy.

Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.