Quotes About Engagement

If you want the best audience, make your way up North to be honest.

I don't mind getting mobbed, to be honest. I live in the real world.

I find rowing very boring, I've got to be honest.

To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.

Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sing to you. I've got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, 'Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.'

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.

To be honest, most of the time you leave the theater, and you're like, 'Well, that was nice, but where did I park?' It doesn't really stick with you.

I don't look too far ahead, to be honest.

I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.