Quotes About Engagement

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

I also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it's important that there's something to react to.

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.

Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.