Quotes About Engagement

insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is.

March 7th It is a serious error, if I am not mistaken, to treat time as a mode of apprehension. For one is then forced to consider it also as the order according to which the subject apprehends himself, and he can only do this by breaking away from himself, as it were, and mentally severing the fundamental engagement which makes him what he is.

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

Qué demonios importa si uno es culto, está al día o ha leído todos los libros? Lo que importa es cómo se anda, cómo se ve, cómo se actúa, después de leer. Si la calle y las nubes y la existencia de los otros tienen algo que decirnos. Si leer nos hace, físicamente, más reales.

Ver la cultura como una conversación nos ayuda a centrarnos en términos finitos: quiénes pueden decir algo de interés para quiénes, y cómo, dónde, cuándo, reunirlos. Nos ayuda a aceptar que, en todo el ancho mundo, las personas que van a leer un nuevo libro son tan pocas que hasta se pudiera hacer una lista.

He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.

If it had writing, I read it: cereal boxes, ads on the subway, billboards, highway signs. I

But we can never do nothing. That which we have done for thousands of years is also action

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.

Until the Right wins for once, I have no interest in arguing with the alt-right or disavowing anyone.

We can't promise wins or losses and things like that but we can promise that we can play hard night in and night out and impact the community and that's the biggest thing.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Regardless of what you look like, regardless of where you come from, you can be involved in winter sports.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.

I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.

I've never done a big series like 'Game of Thrones' before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I'd seen what they had done with 'The Sopranos' and 'The Wire.' But when I started reading the script, it was a no-brainer. Yes, yes, yes. Gold. Every time I turned the page.

'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.

I watched 'The Wire' religiously.

I want to be read. When you write a TV show like 'The Wire,' you've got three to four million readers watching your work. Even Grisham doesn't sell that many books.

Not everything has to be 'The Bridge' or 'The Wire'. Those shows are brilliant. But you have to invest your cerebellum in them.