Quotes About Engagement

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.

I'm in control of my social media, I can shut it off when I want to and when it gets to in my head, and I can interact with the fans when I want to, too.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

If I feel I am not doing something right, I express it to people and to the media, too. I wouldn't shy away from that. It's healthy to interact. What you see is what you get with me.

Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.

No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

Everyone always wants to say I'm shy. I don't think so, but there's a disconnect with my fans. I want my fans to see me - that's what they never do.

We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up - you could ask a question and then answer it.

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.