Quotes About Engagement

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

It's pretty inappropriate of fans to think they can expect any kind of narrative from showrunners or writers or actors. I just don't think that's the way you should engage with material that you're watching as a passive audience member.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

When I'm at my best, I'm ready to hit from pitch one. When I go up there and I'm passive, I'm not as successful.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

There's something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

For me, humor was always my passport into new communities.

Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry.

When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

People have a little more patience for a taped piece than they do a live piece.

If you don't integrate the technology in a way that's actually fun, the kids don't stay with the play pattern.

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

We are absolutely going to make sure Paul Ryan is being held accountable to the people.

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

We need to start talking, to each other, about the issues that matter most. Otherwise, we are just pawns in the game of politics.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.