A Quote by Terrance Hayes

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement. — © Terrance Hayes
I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.
People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.
I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with society. That work has the most value. That is the function of the artist. That result.
I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.
Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
I think I get inspiration from places where I see nature.
Teaching the guitar is a constant source of inspiration. I sometimes think I get more out of the lessons than my students.
We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we get them to do stuff? To me, that's not engagement.
My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.
I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
We will value public engagement.
Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.
If we define value as emotions - and emotional engagement...i.e. love!
When you're young it's football, football, football. Then you get a family, kids come into things and you find you have a broader view of life. You get your inspiration from many different places.
My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis movies. I later got into watching stand-ups like Eddie Murphy, who was my main inspiration.
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.
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