Quotes About Engagement

Martin's axiom, however, I dashed off a blog post that introduced his idea to my readers.5 "Sure,

The presence of the other party waiting for your next insight—be it someone physically in the same room or collaborating with you virtually—can short-circuit the natural instinct to avoid depth.

Once you know where your activities fall on the deep-to-shallow scale, bias your time toward the former.

conversation is what counts—don't be distracted from this reality by the shiny stuff on your screen.

toward distracting behavior, because in an Internet-centric technopoly such behavior is not up for discussion.

The Art of Focus,

the notification symbol for Facebook was originally blue, to match the palette of the rest of the site, "but no one used it."16 So they changed the color to red—an alarm color—and clicking skyrocketed.

sacrificed to earn the small profit of occasional connections and new ideas that is earned by cultivating a significant presence on Twitter?

minimize the shallow in my life

To summarize, if you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.

You "like" my status update and I'll "like" yours. This agreement gives everyone a simulacrum of importance without requiring much effort in return.

Wu, bir konu?mas?nda Day'den ?öyle bahsediyordu: 'Etraf?na bir kalabal?k topla ama onun paras?yla ilgilenme, çünkü bu kalabal???, onun dikkatini isteyen birine yeniden satabilirsin' fikrini gerçekten hayata geçiren ilk insand?.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Without application, preaching is at best a lecture and at worst entertainment.

To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.

If anybody is left behind in a congregation of a thousand, the preacher has not preached well.

The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety.

Most people would rather listen to sermons than act on them.

I must confess I never rebuke a child for being noisy in church, for I suffer the distinct impression that if I were more interesting, he would be less rowdy.

Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.

Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don't matter much.

Whether a plot in a yard or pots in a window, every politically engaged person should have a garden. By politically engaged, I mean everyone with a vested interest in the direction the people on this planet take in relationship to others. We should all take some time to plant life in the soil. Even when such planting isn't easy.

You have to know things like: don't spend the whole time talking about yourself. I used to have a problem with this because silence makes me nervous and I fill it with whatever is in my head...

It was electrifying the way he watched her so carefully that he forgot himself.