Quotes About Engagement

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

I can never wink at the audience.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

Public health depends on winning over hearts and minds. It's not enough to just have a good policy, you have to convince people to actually follow it.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

Winning or losing elections is not important. What is important is that I have taken the plunge.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

Every time we do anything, Austin's the No. 1 place of all that supports it. Austin is our biggest philanthropic helper, even for things that have nothing to do with Austin or Texas.

I text with my dad during every 'Scandal' episode. We talk story lines, acting, and fashion.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

I like to talk to people on the phone. I don't like to do critical stuff by text message.

When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.