Quotes About Engagement

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

I think if you're an interesting person, you don't have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Because of social media today, the youth have more power in their hands than they've ever had.

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

The youth should work on popularising central and state government schemes among people. The young generation should make social media their weapon.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

I feel incredible that I've managed to connect with the youth.

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark.

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership.

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.