Quotes About Engagement

I work to please my audience.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

We are a company for the people, please get involved. Be part of the conversation.

Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

I was so pleased to be offered 'Doctor Who.'

A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they're in New York or Mumbai.

If players are pleased to come off the pitch, that says they are not interested and don't want to be on there.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

English football pleases me a lot. It's the most keenly contested.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too.

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

It was a pleasure working with Q Entertainment. I don't focus on working with one company but rather with multiple companies, and I look forward to working with others.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

I like interaction. I like engagement. My favorite part of Twitter is really the mentions and interacting with people. It's rarely just the broadcasting of my opinions. I have plenty of other mediums to do that.

I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.