Quotes About Engagement

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

Get the entire team involved in identifying and evaluating project risks. Everyone looks at the project differently, and sometimes the input from the student intern can be vital.

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Vibrant political parties are vital to the health of our democracy.

I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.

For me, the real goal is how do we make vibrant and vital faith communities that are sustainable for the long run.

If what you're doing today isn't vital, you're certainly not going to have a seat at the table in determining what's going to happen tomorrow.

It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.

It is vital that people are aware of what the Foreign Office can and can't do.

You know, it's vital for me, when I take a job, to work with people I can enjoy working with.

Both when you defend and when you attack it needs to be about possession and positioning is vital.

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed those conversations when they speak out their own views.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.

Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.