Quotes About Engagement

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.

My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.

When I'm playing any of my characters, I totally go into the realm of the character. That's when I'm able to come up with the most creative stuff, and I believe that's what connects with the audience.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

Twitter has stopped being a place where I could learn things I didn't know, glean information that was free from errors about a breaking news story or engage in a discussion and be reasonably confident that people's criticisms were in good faith.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

It's not just passing, I gotta play defense, I gotta rebound, I gotta talk, I could have 40 and not talk and not bring energy. But it's just trying to have an all-around game, just trying to be the leader I can be, get the pace up.

You have to stay locked in. You're so locked in on guarding your guy you figure when the ball goes up the bigs are going to get it. But the possessions not over until you get the rebound.

We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics.

We invite all those who have been outside Kenya to come back and join in the rebuilding of our new nation.

I'd like to think I have good recall of games I've been a part of and plays I've been a part of.

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.

Those projects most successful on Kickstarter - those that receive funding completely and quickly - do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged.

A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of people's time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time.

You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

I do receive some offers for live-action, but I'm not really that interested. It's not something you can just try out and give it a go.

You need to receive the ball and be assertive with it.

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

The best advice I received when I started out was to think about the camera or microphone as if it was a person to connect with.