Quotes About Engagement

When you consume a half hour or an hour of television, you can talk about what happened as opposed to consuming ten hours of content, and then you don't remember everything you want to talk about.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.

If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.

Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.

I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth party.

American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

If there is an option to use a real human being and to have a chat with somebody and do your shopping that way, I do try and do that.

I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

My relationship with Joe Silva has always been him saying 'hey I want you to fight this day' and it's like alright sounds good. I don't really look at it as an option.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

We must have options to make tennis more attractive emotions-wise.

Watching something like 'Orange is the New Black' - the development of the characters is amazing. Or 'Breaking Bad' or 'Mad Men' - those shows went on for so long. You become so invested in those characters, and I think that's a pretty magic thing.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.