Quotes About Engagement

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.

If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.

Playing on the field is different from providing inputs sitting in the dugout.

I like the idea of a Citizen's Assembly that has been used in Ireland, providing a forum in which to discuss the nuances of an issue before deciding if and how it should be put to the people.

That's what DSi is all about: Providing simple, quick-to-master experiences that everybody can pick up and enjoy.

What's most important is to create an atmosphere that's real, providing characters the audience can root for. Once they become emotionally attached, that's the secret in building a show. The audience can see themselves in these characters, and they respond to the stories.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

I love provincial politics.

A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.

Being a host or a guest or a pundit, you really want to say something that's interesting and potentially provocative, that's going to stick with people. The last thing you want to say when you're a politician is something provocative.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

To the degree you could provoke people and engage them in a unique way, your message is more likely to resonate longer. I figured out the less-than-140-character concept long before Twitter came along.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

The Doctor character originated from playing Halo 2 on the Xbox and it had proximity chat where you could engage with someone in real-time on the microphone, and I loved that; I ate that up.

I love to think on my feet, and I love to be able to feel from a close proximity how things are going.

Advertising is so touchy-feely. You have to speak to the psyche of the people. I'm not very good at that.

You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people.