Quotes About Engrossment

When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

Hey. You know second contact is pretty important too.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Whenever I am applying myself to something, I can't help but be part of it.

When the reader has stopped to wonder at your delamificatious vocabulary, or, worse, when the reader has stopped because the word you've used has no more meaning to him than a random ptliijnbvc of letters, the reader is not involved in your story. ... Generally, saying 'edifice' instead of 'building' doesn't tell your reader anything about the building; it tells the reader that you know that word edifice.

I don't just post a video and then get offline. After uploading, I love to respond to comments, tweets, and messages about the video.

A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

Stay engaged; be part of the process.

I think how amazing it would be if I wasn't behind the scenes, but just one of the throng out on the floor. Right in the swing of things. The thick of it.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

What matters is establishing this link and consistently creating engagement around it. What matters is telling the story.

It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

absorbed she no longer existed. She'd finally absorbed herself.

I rather argue with you than be right all by myself.

You're only making movies for two reasons: Because you have something to say or because you want to entertain people.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

you're involved with, if you get half a chance. I treated

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

Go where events flow fastest. Specifically what does that mean? It means, simply, make contact with people. Get involved. Don't be a sideliner, watching events flow past. Plunge into the events yourself.

It did something else that art is supposed to do. Absorb you.

the library all alone, reading