Quotes About Engagement

The strength of a creed did not rest on "evidence" of the powers of its gods, but evidence of the skin in the game on the part of its worshippers.

We also saw the solution in forcing skin in the game.

Actually, wouldn't it be better if the length of movies were kept a secret?

It costs a lot of energy to fake that you're not bored.

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention.

Luckily, I had some skin in the game for my opinions

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.

his conversation becomes mere chitchat around the point, never getting to the central idea.

skin in the game is necessary to understand the world.

those who have more than their skin in the game. They have their soul in the game.

they think in terms of actions, never interactions.

In general, skin in the game comes with conflict of interest.

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity.

As the great game theorist Ariel Rubinstein holds: do your theories or mathematical representations, don't tell people in the real world how to apply them. Let those with skin in the game select what they need.

The interactions matter more than the nature of the units.

The longer the person stays with a company, the more emotional investment they will have in staying

Many kids would learn to love mathematics if they had some investment in it, and, more crucially, they would build an instinct to spot its misapplications.

his presence is needed at every performance

They also serve the interest of other groups.

El dar cuerda a alguien se decía en nuestra casa «dar cordel». Gino, efectivamente, daba poco cordel, porque siempre estaba leyendo, y cuando se le dirigía la palabra respondía con monosílabos y sin levantar la cabeza del libro.

Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.

The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

I have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I'm not giving a lesson or a sermon, I'm offering a dialogue, as I said before.