Quotes About Engagement

Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like to have.

My goal is to be able to speak to everyone in the country and to be able to make everyone in the country think differently about our political system.

I was a motivational speaker and I've been in front of crowds a lot and I'm very comfortable with that.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.

I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene - like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There's way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.

For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.

I love presentations more than fashion shows. I love speaking to people and walking them through the collection.

When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!