Quotes About Engagement

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.

If the public has given us stature, we must also be answerable to them.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

I stay close to my identity - that's something I find important - but I don't completely shut myself off from the outside world.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

You have to stay in the moment. Stay focused. Know what you're going to do.

We have to stay focused on every possession.

The best advice for anyone trying to grow on social media is to be real and to be consistent. People will connect more with you if you stay true to yourself and who you are.

I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment.

Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.

Growing up, my mom was a stay-at-home mom. I knew that her entire world revolved around us, and she relished being involved in every school project and every craft.

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

I don't think I would have stayed for the second season if I hadn't been happy.

I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.