Quotes About Engrossment

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'

One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

I am not the life and soul of the camp, but I do speak a lot throughout the team and to everyone.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

Mutual INTRIGUE is the key to turning frustrating, waste-of-time, one-way communications into productive, rewarding two-way connections.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

The best advice I received when I started out was to think about the camera or microphone as if it was a person to connect with.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I'm not having fun.

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

I am trying to participate

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than "What's up?

She had seeped into his consciousness so thoroughly, absorbing all lucid thought, that not only could he think of nothing else but no longer cared to.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind

Every software program relates to some activity or interest of its user.

when you join something, they expect you to do it. To"—he shuddered—"participate.

The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.

If you have the tendency to give too much information, the Two Sentence Principle might be for you. Speak two sentences and then observe or listen to your audience (whether one person or many). Do they want more? Do they look bored or want to leave?

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.