Quotes About Engagement

What matters is the quality of your show. In my opinion, numbers will fluctuate but you need to be honest with what you are offering to your audience. There are shows that have super high numbers but then you can't even sit through those.

Whenever offers come my way, if I connect with it, then I am completely open to it.

Every time the UFC offers something, I just take it.

If I have to convey some message to different parts of the state, then the state capital offers me the best platform.

Offers have to be really interesting for me to take them up either in movies or TV.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

I always get so excited when I get to go to my friends at corporate offices. I am always, like, looking around. I think that's really exciting to be a part of an actual corporate office.

I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

I'm hard-wired to view everything that Albany does through the lens of a local town, city, county official.

I'm not very fond of the first official act with a player being to immediately discuss his contractual situation.

The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.

I think we have got to do a better job explaining to people why their vote does count. I think people feel disconnected from some of their elected officials, as well as the system, because, sometimes, it is very complicated.

Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

It definitely feels different to perform to people who know your music. Because people's feedback is not just, 'Oh my God, that was amazing. Who are you?'

It's nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, 'Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO's money.'

There was a time when people were like, 'Oh my God, Sheamus' character is boring.' Well, when you're just in wrestling matches all the time, and you're not doing character stuff, then it can be a bit monotonous.

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.