Quotes About Engagement

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.

People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.