Quotes About Engagement

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.

The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

I think because we were a girl group, there was such a stigma, so we had to engage with fans - social media was such a big part of our journey.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

You always have to stimulate the senses.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

Every society needs people who can encourage and stimulate and cheer. They are the ones who make the world run. You can be one of them!

The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.

I am averse to incompetency. I need mentally stimulating people and intelligent conversations.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.

Modern audiences are so intelligent. They work at such a fast pace that if you don't give enough stimulus at a breakneck speed, they will become disinterested.

We're a busy family. We like challenges, and we like to be fully engaged with life. I've done that as long as I've been with Sting.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.