Quotes About Engagement

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

I've gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It's fun. It's fun to get involved where you live. And this is where I live. I'm a registered voter here. I have my Wisconsin driver's license.

I think it's extremely important that the citizens of Wisconsin know the positions I'm taking.

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, 'I feel politically homeless.' And we need to re-engage that person.

It's really time for the State of Wisconsin to form a better relationship with the greater Milwaukee area.

I enjoy the process of assessing, analyzing it and even as a professional I still think it's very wise to allow the fan in you to continue to remain alive. The professional always has to come first, but the fan in you allows you to relate to what people are watching.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours.

Remember: If you don't schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.

I think social media tools are helpful, so long as you pick your social media wisely.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

If I have something to do, an event to do, I am taking it serious. I remember those times when I wish I had events to do.

I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.