Quotes About Engagement

The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.

I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience.

I'm passionate about anything I align myself with. You want to talk about chocolate chip cookies? I'm not going to open a chocolate chip cookie store, but I will talk your ear off about it.

The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.

You can't go to the store and buy 'the Engagement Platform.'

Being in meetings - that feels like work. But finding candy, being in the store - that's fun, and it drives me.

It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion.

In my early campaigns, people would sometimes come up to me at a grocery store or at a shopping mall and say, 'I know you from somewhere.'

If our employees are wearing the Uber sweatshirt to the grocery store, that would make me feel great.

Experience is going to be even more important than it used to be - people will want to live something when they are in our stores, otherwise they'll just buy on their phones.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

True stories are way more interesting.

I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't have to prevent us from continuing to grapple with the story at hand. It ideally should demand that we remain engaged with the story.

Big stories need human stakes.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

Cowboy James Storm and Eli Drake, those guys can talk and rile the people up.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we're planning what we'll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

I'm a huge believer in story being this invisible scaffolding that no one ever recognizes or realizes is actually making the audience engaged in what's going on. There is no formula for it.

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.