Quotes About Engagement

Indeed, there is only one reason for us to take up the challenge of relationship, but it is a compelling one -- we must fully relate if we are to fully live.

In one of the paradoxes of storytelling, readers want to predict how the story will end (or how it will get to the end), but they want to be wrong.

Go ahead and break the rules, flip expectations, twist the story world around backwards—as long as it's in the service of your readers.

Readers couldn't care less how many acts are in your story. In fact, if you write it well, they probably won't even be able to keep track of them. Instead, they care about the forward momentum of the story as it escalates toward its inevitable and unexpected conclusion. Let the shape of the story determine the number of acts, not the other way around.

Typically, readers don't get bored because too little is happening but because too little is being promised.

if you're not the customer, you're the product

What would you do when you weren't online?" To Schillace and his colleagues, the question was shortsighted. It was like condemning an appliance for using electricity.

Page once said that anyone hired at Google should be capable of engaging him in a fascinating discussion should he be stuck at an airport with the employee on a business trip. The implication was that every Googler should converse at the level of Jared Diamond or the ghost of Alan Turing. The idea was to create a charged intellectual atmosphere that makes people want to come to work.

toxic addictiveness... news feed and other "infinite scrolls" the worst offenders..

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it's just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds. Even if you recognize that it might not be good for them to be in their

Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it's just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds.

Use the hook, you

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. But you can't get everybody to interpret the result in the same Way. And that's thrilling to know – that everybody will see it differently.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Just contemplating the energy required to make small talk tired him.

He was an observer of what was happening rather than a participant. There could be neither enjoyment or disgust, only awareness.

Verity found, much to her own annoyance, that she was looking forward to the dinner party.

They giggled at my inquiries, shaking their heads, grabbing hold of my hands and whirling me 'round in their midst. My voice simply blew away from me.