Quotes About Engagement

Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

You can only play one hole at a time.

Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.

Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.