Quotes About Engagement

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.

The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.

I would say get to know somebody who isn't exactly like you and doesn't come from the same background as you, educate yourself and then just keep showing up. Finding ways to show up for people and your voice will come out of that relationship and out of your pursuit to seeing people who aren't exactly like you.

Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited, we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable international environment.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!

Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

I sometimes wonder if I pushed myself to get out there and meet people I'd get more work.

An actor is nothing without the vision of the director. The director needs to have a vision that will cross boundaries, that makes the audience sit on the edge of their seats and that pushes the envelope.

It's not about just a vote, it's about being a voice. There's a difference between being a person who just pushes the button and someone who is actually going to be a voice for the conservative movement.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable.

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.

I always try to find the kids that's getting on your nerves - because your instinct let you know they pushing you out the way, you getting old. And you don't let that bother you, have fun! You ain't got to hang out with them, but you can work with them.

If you're constantly just trying to go in this win-loss cycle that MLB is pushing, you are creating bandwagon fans, and that's not the type of fans you want to create.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.