Quotes About Engagement

All folks have a Big Ben in their brain that determines how receptive they are going to be to you and your ideas. When you mess with their internal clock, they won't listen to you. No matter how interesting your information, or how pleasant your call, bad timing means bad results for you.

When going to a gathering with great networking possibilities, the best way to ensure you are conversationally in the swing of things is to listen to a newscast just before you leave.

You should never ask What do you do for a living? What is your job?". You simply practice the following eight words. How do you spend most of your time?

I regret I can't make the meeting today

I like talking to you,' he said, slowly. 'Why?' That was the way to hear nice things. Ask why.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

if a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received

When you get up in front of a group of people, you make a contract with them; you promise them, "I am going to deliver value X." Every once in a while, you have to say, "See, I remember; I am keeping my promise.

Starting kids reading before they're ready can actually boomerang and turn them off to reading

What counts in evangelism is not cognition, but recognition. Can

The church doesn't lose its kids when they go to college. We start losing them in middle school. We lose children in the church when we send them out of worship to children's church or Sunday school. This is one reason why Jesus kept insisting, "Let the little children come to me."[222

preachertainment"?

We are what we do with our attention."64

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.

Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there's an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader's active participation. Books are good for your brain.

It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours. from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

A film presents images; a book creates them inside the reader, with the reader's active participation. Books are good for your brain. Neurologists have found that, when watching television or film, the viewer's eyes remain idle, straight ahead, but when reading, the actual physical movement of scanning the page from left to right (or right to left, or up and down, depending) stimulates and conditions the brain, a Stairmaster of the mind.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland

We CAN talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to

If you think we're waxworks, he said, you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow! Contrariwise, added the one marked 'DEE', if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail. There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?