Quotes About Engagement

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

when crossing the chasm, we are looking to attract customer-oriented distribution with one of our primary lures being distribution-oriented pricing. Customer-Oriented

You simply cannot spend your way into the hearts and minds of technology enthusiasts and visionaries.

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,And yet he semed bisier than he was.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

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You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.

MARION: I'll tell you a story. DANTON: You might put your lips to better use.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

a generous backer of your town's museums, schools and churches.

Churchless born agains are not interested in being pressured into immediate engagement. They left the fold before, and they will do it again if they feel they are being manipulated to participate in programs or activities merely to help an organization reach its quantitative goals. If they return, it will be for spiritual and relational reasons; they do not want to be numbers on the bottom line or cogs in the machine.

We've by far had the most success inviting people into our community life by inviting them to serve alongside us. As a matter of fact, that's about the only thing that's worked consistently as far as "official" church activities go. The other thing that has worked is parties—birthday parties, Super Bowl parties—where we invite churched friends and unchurched friends just to connect.

Our studies consistently show a large majority of people leave their church's service without feeling as though they have connected with God. If those who regularly attend depart with such disappointment and confusion, what must it be like for those who are new to the church adventure?

It is absolutely necessary to be effective in the digital space, though this effort alone will not spell outreach success.

If you consider how most churches deliver content—appointing one person as the authority and encouraging everyone else to sit (consume) quietly while he or she speaks—it is easy to see how that delivery system may come into conflict with changing cultural expectations.

We may be the only people in the world who can say our goal is to have people leave our website as quickly as possible. —"Ten Things We Know to Be True," Google company website

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill) "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." — Churchill's response

Literature is a drug.