Quotes About Engagement

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Communication comes with practice. As a leader you must speak the truth; listen for understanding; and learn from what you hear and do not hear.

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Apathy is the opposite of caring. If you're apathetic towards something, then it isn't something you want.

We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

We don't have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how well we do it?

What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

People assume that if they say nothing and do nothing they're not involved in the fight, but the fact is that their apathy is a tacit vote of support for the status quo.

His words didn't take stands, just described feelings that a lot of his audience felt, too. There were no strident political exhortations, no hipper-than-thou posturing.

People in concert crowds were not used to being noticed and singled out by a band—it was as if the television set had started talking back to them.

I love staying with people," says MacKaye. "I love doing the driving. I love having to load equipment. The experiences are things that a lot of people never have.

Singing is an inclusive thing. It gives somebody something to do at a concert—they feel like they're a part of it…. When I see people singing, it makes me feel like I'm getting something back.

Picciotto recalled when he was a teenager writing to obscure English punk bands like Rudimentary Peni, Dead Wretched, and Blitz. "Those fuckers wrote us back, and it blew my mind," recalls Picciotto. "It was so cool to feel that connection. I've always kept that in mind. If someone writes you, you send them a letter back. It's just a cool thing to do.

There was constant communication between everyone.

Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!