Quotes About Engagement

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

The play has to work for the super fans, and not speak down to them, and yet it had to play to those people who maybe had never read a Harry Potter book or seen the films.

If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I'll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.