Quotes About Engagement

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

I received a considerable personal response to my part in 'Roots.'

There's something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening and receiving them, or singing them back to me, that I just can't get enough of.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

My role isn't just receiving.

Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging them with sound, particularly sound that stirs them emotionally because of the sequence of notes, will make them pay attention.

Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission.

As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.

For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception.

I've done many rallies and it's been super-charged, highly charged. People are very receptive.

It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.

If you can reach people in their pockets, on their lunch breaks, on their commutes to and from work, on recess at school, and make things they want to see, that's an amazing thing for a show like ours.

There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.

Being clueless and out of touch is not a recipe for success at the midterm elections. But that only matters if you care about democracy.

I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited about the recipes.

I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on.

You can't be a passive recipient of images, you have to engage with images and read their subtexts. These are critical things that will be taught to the students by a film club.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.