Direct Engagement Quotes

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.

You can’t outsource diplomacy. You can’t do it unless you do it.

was probably the last campaign where the candidate went out personally to the people.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.

I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

There's nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right then and there. That relationship is established in 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds, they'll let you know whether they like you or not.

We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

Stage shows help you meet the audiences face-to-face.

I don’t poll. I go out into the communities and talk to regular people. That’s the poll.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.

I love covering politics at that early stage where you can walk up to Mike Huckabee, who gets out of his car by himself. A car that he drove, who just walks up and talks to you because that's the only way he can get his message out.

Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.

I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.