Quotes About Engross

He paused just long enough to make them feel they ought to say something, and then interrupted.

If I go back to when Borat and Ali G. were doing it, they were more just TV, cinema, TV, cinema. Whereas I live in more of the Internet age where people like to feel like they can still touch you, and so it's important for me not to almost box myself off.

Don't just exist, be a part of life.

I'm sort of an osmotic fellow.

Although Tietjens hated golf as he hated any occupation that was of a competitive nature, he could engross himself in the mathematics of trajectories when

Use words that soak up life.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

One design of God in the gospel is to bring us to make God the object of our undivided respect, that he may engross our regard every way, that whatever natural inclination there is in our souls, he may be the centre of it; that God may be all in all.

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

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.

Keep in mind that small talk is good because it allows you to grab onto other topics that conversation can branch off from, and good conversationalists should be able to do that.

concentrate

The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

Hacer presentaciones persuasivas no tienen que ver sólo ocn el entusiasmo y con usar PowerPoint, requiere destrezas concretas que mantengan a su audiencia interesada.

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

one-liner makes people lean in rather than tune out at cocktail party.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?