Quotes About Engagement

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

It's great to have the opportunity to reach out to people that don't know much about snowboarding so they can see it and get stoked on it.

If your fans are comfortable, then people are going to be stoked to be there.

In my 100th video, I gave a shout-out to the 78 subscribers I had at that point. And I was stoked at that point just to have that many who cared about what I had to say.

The only thing I've ever stolen are hours out of people's lives with meandering conversations.

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.

I've seen the Stones play for three hours, and the crowd knew every song. It's what you want in a headline slot at a festival.

I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.

If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.

You need to put yourself in the way of the music that stood the test of time. You're doing yourself an incredible disservice not be interested in the width and breadth of it.

I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop.

If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.

Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.

Never stop listening to your audience.