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"I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'"
"Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life."
"An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be."
"All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member."
"Better ramp up your virtual relationships. Companies think omni channel is the correct answer. This is not enough. The information explosion for consumers makes 24/7 and full and complete engagement possible."
"Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement."
"Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement."
"People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame."
"There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility."
"You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is."
"We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals."
"We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective."
"Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement."
"TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about."
"It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion."
"People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement."
"Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation."
"What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?"
"If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner."
"Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more."
