Quotes About Engagement

worst team member is the best predictor of how any team performs. It doesn't seem to matter how great the best member is,

In my experience, the more isolated the developers, the worse the resulting end product. It

the ultimate unit test is whether or not users want to use your application. All the other tests you write are totally irrelevant until you can get that one to pass.

The proper monitoring attitude is not to be distrustful, but instead, to show interest in their work.

Being alive, you have to do something. Not doing anything is also some kind of action.

What does it mean to be in-between? It means one can afford to sit on the fence, decide not to take a stand, to always reserve the privilege - while the battle rages all around - to disengage.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Stop thinking your way through life, always trying to work it out before living it. Life is to be lived, not analyzed to death. Feel

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

The best gift you can give your customers, your team, and your community is an inspired, rejuvenated, fully alive you.

Noneditable data should never be displayed in a control that looks editable or operable. Checkboxes, radio buttons, menus, sliders, and the like should never be used for noneditable data because they look operable. Even if they are inactive (grayed), they look like they can somehow be made active, and users will waste time trying to do so.

We become part of what we are around.

I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.

that if you don't read nobody does

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you?

What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.

Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean)

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

With children it is often so much easier to take the path of least resistance—to let them eat that fast food they love rather than cook something healthy, to let them watch TV rather than read to them, to let them play video games rather than interact with them.

Life is doing. If you aren't doing, you're dying.

meeting" is often the euphemism we use for unproductive collaboration.

Handing off all the details about the story to someone else to build doesn't work. Don't do that.