Quotes About Engagement

Public speaking is very easy.

We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we may not agree. This is a prerequisite for a functional democracy. But tolerance alone is not sufficient; it allows us to accept others without engaging with them, to feel smug and self-satisfied without challenging the boundaries within which too many of us live.

New York is never a megalopolis of however many millions; it's always just your neighborhood—the shoe repair guy, the carpenter, the grocer, the post office—like any small town in Texas, really. (Dan Rather, from My First New York)

We live largely separated from one another, and most people seem to be okay with that. It is not good enough to vote for politicians who will do the right thing on racial issues, or even to give money to worthy causes. If we are not actively trying to tear down the "fences to separate the races," as Justice Marshall described it, then we are all part of the problem.

How do we expect people to participate in something they don't understand?

Ask: is giving this choice to a user going to make the experience more interesting, valuable, or pleasurable? If the answer is no, leave it out.

The Long Wow is about delivering new experiences or features over time instead of all at once, and by doing so building customer loyalty

Wherever you are, make sure you're there.

your attention is the most valuable property you can ever possess.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux development community. When eager programmers would ask him, '"What part of Linux should I work on?' his answer would usually be, '"Let me know when you find out' (p.286).

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Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next." "Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.

Stick with me, Miss Lofton. I'm locked, loaded and ready.

Well," he murmured, watching her with a clever, knowing smile, "Given that ye didn't hit me this time, I'm thinkin' ye must have liked that." "I'd be a liar if I claimed otherwise.

Plan I—Plying the Enemy with Flowers and Gifts—was not working. Plan II—Bringing Aboard the Enemy's Crew— seemed to be failing miserably. It was time to put Plan III—Enticing the Enemy Out of Port—into action.

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Anyone else tired of how media eats your brain?

But if what a novel exudes has not been felt properly or seriously or deeply enough by the writer, then it will show and I will become tremendously bored and irritated.

He always asks questions, and those questions are always the same: personal, direct, focused on the big picture. What did you think of it? What would you have done in that situation?

Purpose isn't about tapping into some mystical internal drive but rather about creating simple beacons that focus attention and engagement on the shared goal. Successful cultures do this by relentlessly seeking ways to tell and retell their story. To do this, they build what we'll call high-purpose environments.

One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together.

One of the things I say most often is probably the simplest thing I say," says Givechi. " 'Say more about that.'

We focus on what we can see—individual skills. But individual skills are not what matters. What matters is the interaction.