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Quotes About Engagement

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
~ John Charles Polanyi
Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.
~ Elise Andrew
In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting
~ Joanna Russ, The Female Man
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?
~ F. Sherwood Rowland
Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.
~ Satchel Paige
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.
~ Jill Shalvis
When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.
~ Boy George
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
~ Ralph Neas
I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.
~ Richard Branson
In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
~ Quentin Crisp
The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.
~ Frank Luntz
Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.
~ Shannon L. Alder
What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.
~ George Takei
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
~ Augusto Boal
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
~ Seth Godin
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
~ Kofi Annan
Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
~ Thomas Sowell
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
~ Pericles
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
~ Erma Bombeck
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
~ Paul Newman
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
~ Thomas Jefferson