Quotes About Engagement

before you tackle the bruising challenge of talking to "crazy," make sure you have a good reason to go there.

You can't be curious and on the attack at the same moment.

I strongly recommend the Reverse Play if you're dealing with someone who has the skills and ability to do a job, but isn't giving 100 percent.

All persuasion moves through the steps of this cycle. To take people from the beginning to the end of the Persuasion Cycle, you need to speak with them in a manner that moves them: From resisting to listening From listening to considering From considering to willing to do From willing to do to doing From doing to glad they did and continuing to do

generally, the less knowledgeable one appears, the more forthcoming and revealing the other party will be.

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in, less engagement with, and frankly less knowledge of the great out there. Neither

What is human is to make a difference to the world, to act on it, to interact with others, and, together, to transform the environment and themselves. If this process is prevented, we become less than human; we are harmed.

Parler, MeWe, and Discord's community forums. Rumble, Vimeo, and Bitchute.

Americans believe that the media have an important role to play in our democracy—yet they don't see that role being fulfilled.

Storytelling games are active entertainment, interactive and original, as opposed to passive.

Let every player have an equal chance to take an action or interact with one of your characters. Though you may naturally give more time to the more creative and inventive roleplayers in your group, never ignore the others.

When you play each point as it comes, or play each delivery on its own merits, you are doing just that: playing. But when the value of each point or delivery becomes instrumental, what you are doing is work.

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.

The writer's imagination sets the template for the reader's to take over. The reader is a participant in the imaginative process.

Make your novel's opening sentence beautiful, one that hooks the reader, and have your last sentence refuse to let the reader go.

Write a novel so clear and compelling you'll never need to explain what it's about.

Plot-driven or character-driven, a novel must grab the reader's emotions and not let go til the final word.

A good novel is an intensely personal rendezvous between reader and writer.

A good novel appeals to emotions, not intellect. It makes you feel things deeply, and then you think about them.

The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.

This book is easy to understand and gets your attention. The real life examples are effective in delivering the message on the tremendous power of personal accountability. At the Callaway Energy Center, we trained our leaders on personal accountability and used this book as a guide. This resulted in notable improvements in our teamwork, engagement, accountability, and performance. I highly recommend it." —Fadi Diya, vice president, nuclear operations, Ameren Corporation