Quotes About Engagement

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

I may make you angry or make you feel sorry for me, but in the end, you appreciate my show because it's not one-dimensional.

I'm sorry, TikTok, but I refuse to have a TikTok account. Like, I can't. Like there's only so much I can do.

So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - relatively soulless information - and embed them in the telling of a purposeful story. Your 'tell' renders an experience to your audience, making the information inside the story memorable, resonant and actionable.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

I am very happy if those who played 'Bloodborne' are interested in 'Dark Souls III' too.

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.

Explaining 'The Price Is Right' is probably going to make it sound like the most moronic show ever. I invite people out of the audience to guess the price of a series of household objects.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.

People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a source of social anxiety.