Quotes About Engagement

I've played to audiences where people are sitting there with their arms crossed, just kind of watching. Although they might be having a great time, and they might be really enjoying the spectacle, if I'm not getting anything back, it does affect the way I perform and project.

I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.

Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.

Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.

Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.

You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a reader.

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

It is good to get the racing closer to the spectators.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.

I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.

We have to find a way to let everyone know when they're watching that we hear them, that we're asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.