Quotes About Engagement

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.

Sometimes our jobs as teachers is not to open their minds. Sometimes we have to thaw them.

If you want to appeal to the masses, make sure you appeal to the one. If you try to write with everybody in mind, you'll appeal to no one because everyone will think your book is for someone else.

There's no law against writing a boring book…but there ought to be.

As the car goes its way, some people seek escape from the necks by staring at the progress-meter above the door—the light that hops from one number to the next. A glance is all that is necessary, but some riders follow the progress, floor by floor, trying to guess where it will stop next. A few—probably habitual readers—spend the time reading the city inspection permit above the control panel.

Love is dialougue, not monolougue

All man's life among men is nothing more than a battle for the ears of others.

If you're not nervous, you're not paying attention.

Here's the thing: this planet's not a place that kids will inherit at some point, far off in the distant future. We live here right now, and we share this planet already."

Pero cuando se habla, no se mira. Los charlatanes nunca ven nada.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

Learning was like playing

I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.

As an adult, I've met an ocean of divorced people. I might even know more divorced people than married people, because I live in godless Los Angeles, where if you're engaged it simply means you're publicly announcing that you are dating a person monogamishly.

I guess I'm the kind of person who likes to be part of something so much that I won't care if the something is bad.

Why is it that chatting with friends is energizing, but making small talk with acquaintances takes such monumental effort?

Gregor would reference all kinds of books and articles, and instead of paraphrasing them, like any normal lazy person, he'd insist on going online and finding the exact line or quote from the secondary source, adding another five-minute silent section to the meeting, during which he wordlessly surfed online. Later I would realize this is Greg''s signature style. He likes to take in people past the point where they can be putting on a show to impress him.

No, that is boring. If people want to see medical stuff they should watch ER.