Quotes About Engagement

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

Things will only improve when the people - all of us - say to authorities, 'I will hold you responsible.' We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.

Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.

It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

Use it or lose it.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

I'm used to multitasking... I like it that way. I like when things are busy. I strive off the pace.

Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

What I do used to be called 'diversity training,' then 'cultural competency' and now, 'anti-racism.' These terms are really useful for periods of time, but then they get coopted, and people build all this baggage around them, and you have to come up with new terms, or else people won't engage.

When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.

I think politics often seems remote, and anything we can do to show more of the workings - how you make the sausage - is useful.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow.

If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.