Quotes About Engagement

I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there.

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

If the actor believes in the moment, the audience believes in it, too.

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.

AEW is all about the bell to bell action. You're going to get more wrestling and less soapy backstage drama.

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

No matter what people are doing, they are much less happy when their minds are wandering than when their minds are focused

acceptance of the present moment has nothing to do with resignation in the face of what is happening. It simply means a clear acknowledgment that what is happening is happening.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake." If we are to grasp the reality of our life while we have it, we will need to wake up to our moments. Otherwise, whole days, even a whole life, could slip past unnoticed.

As encountering each moment with awareness becomes more familiar to you, you will find that it is not only possible but even enjoyable to be in the moment, even with ordinary tasks such as washing the dishes. You come to see that you don't have to rush to get through with the dishes so that you can get on to something better or more important because, at the moment that you are doing the dishes, that is your life.

becoming more of a human doing than a human being

is that if you are aware of what is happening, you are "doing it right," no matter what is happening.

It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering….

In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.

We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take a side. It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demand action, engagement, and remembering...

Most of us were simply wrapped too tightly in the grip of summit fever to engage in thoughtful reflection about the death of someone in our midst.

All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering….

When you are explaining, you're losing...

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious, peril.