Quotes About Engagement

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.

If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.

Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me.

I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.

We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.

There are times when it's absolutely appropriate to march up to someone, stick out your hand and introduce yourself, and times when it's best to let your male cameraman or producer do the talking and hang back until you've felt out the situation.

Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it.

You don't need to be partisan. CNN does need to stick to a nonpartisan point of view. That doesn't mean there can't be more passion and excitement.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.

If you want an audience that genuinely sticks around, you have to listen to what their opinion is.