Quotes About Engagement

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.

In the 'Doki Doki Morning' video, there were lots of parts where we weren't dancing. It was just, you know, our faces. But fans thought up their own movements and dances for those parts, and they made lots of outfits, too.

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less interesting it is to me; and if it's less interesting for me, it will be that way for the reader.

Even in private e-mail groups, it is journalists who seem outraged, anguished and disheartened at what has been described as the 'prostitution' of news; the reader response is always lukewarm.

People want to engage you by being outraged or faux-outraged at things you're saying, but if you confront them and defend yourself, then people don't like it. But then if you don't and you stay quiet, people don't like that either.

You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.

I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.

The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness, the larger will be the commitment, engagement, and outright devotion they have when it comes to you.

I know there are millions of football fans who love this game, but can see the world outside it.

I'd just like to see athletes awake. And aware. There's so much going on and so much to know... We stay in our little boxes and don't think much about the outside world.

I don't have to stand back as an outsider to look at society.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Any new thing that comes out with the ability to enhance our show or my ability to communicate with fans and give people more behind-the-scenes access, you know we'll be all over it.

When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.

I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.

The audience has a level of control, when you watch 'Invisible,' that nothing in 2D can give you. The overall climax of the series will work no matter how you get there, and the climax of each episode will work no matter how you get there, but no two viewings of an episode will ever be the same.

I say yes to everything if I like the overall thing that's being put out there. I'll do anything with David Wain.

Full live performances are always my favorites, and I think a lot of people's favorites too, just because you can feel the energy off the crowd and there's so much more interaction, and just everything overall is just like very hype.

But overall I've always learned to play well in the sandbox with the people I'm working with. I think that's my minor-league training.

I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.