Quotes About Engagement

His eye contact with his partner had improved. Scoble wasn't constantly staring at and tapping on the small screen of his phone, as he was so prone to do. Glass had improved the way we related to each other.

The key to retention for all of these programs is what happens AFTER your new member joins.

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say 'what happened?

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children. There is no such thing as being neutral: we must either help or hinder.

If we go into the visit with both parties knowing what's going on, then we can spend the visit talking about what we do about it.

In a perverse way, we've been lucky that the current state of health IT is so woeful. It gives us the time we need to begin to sort out how to prevent such deskilling and disengagement before the computers really take over. Let's take advantage of this window before it is too late.

make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.

Most human beings are quite likable if you do not see too much of them.

Those are the sites that only allow you to be a listener and not a broadcaster. A site called Live365.com is different.

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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him....

nadie, y menos en literatura, es capaz de no parpadear durante un tiempo prolongado

Y después nos pusimos a hablar de política, que era un tema que a Cesárea le gustaba, aunque cada vez menos. Cómo si la política y ella hubieran enloquecido juntas.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

We need a seat at the table … If we're not at the table, we're probably on the menu.

It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?

If a few students come reluctantly to their studies, then let them go. If all students come reluctantly to their studies, then let your scribe be dismissed and find another. For once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

What does who call me when?

You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz

You can't play in shit and not get some on you.