Quotes About Engagement

Wie faßten wir uns an — an mit diesen Händen?

Good salespeople use questions to learn something about their buyers.

Great salespeople use questions to help buyers learn something about themselves.

I have learned through years of sales and consulting that there are two types of relationships: superficial and substantive.

That means asking good questions—questions that engage your customers—and channeling that engagement into action.

At the most basic level, this book shows you how to ask questions that will get your customers talking.

Salespeople are often afraid to let their customers talk. They fear that if a customer takes the conversation in the wrong direction, they will lose control and ultimately lose the sale.

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

running a business without marketing will kill it

A business without marketing is dead.

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

I greatly appreciate the work of Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga. He has observed that many academicians have a disdain for the term popularizer. However, he urges Christian philosophers not to leave their work "buried away in professional journals" but to make it available to the broader Christian community. If they don't connect their work to the life of the church, then they "neglect a crucial and central part of their task as believing philosophers.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.

In fact, one of the things that makes a sermon compelling is that the preacher is worshiping his way through his own sermon.

I am persuaded that the church today has many more consumers than committed participants.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

Many Christians also live inside the church virtually unknown. They slip in and out of the weekly service almost unnoticed. Sure, they will exchange niceties with the people near them, and if they do that, they will learn a few cursory details about one another's lives, but they don't really have a relationship with the people with whom they worship.

it is true of every believer and that we live in a daily state of spiritual war and must therefore live with eyes open, heart engaged, mind alert, and protective gear in place

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.