Quotes About Engagement

I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

I will say about my fans, from day one they've been listening and are still listening to my projects on repeat.

I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

There are songs which even if you listen to repeatedly, you don't end up liking them, but there are some songs which have an instant connection with the listener. 'Ruka Hoon' is that song which instantly clicked with me.

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

There's no replacement for a live crowd. The fans are our barometer - whether they love something or hate it, they will let you know.

We try and reply to as many fans as we can, especially on Twitter.

I don't want to get embroiled in any controversy. At the same time, I want to take part in those conversations that are meaningful. I have not entrusted anyone to reply on behalf or react to any issue pertaining to me.

I get lots of letters, and I reply to them all personally.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.

I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.