Quotes About Engagement

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-and keep it there. Scarlett would have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: How wonderful you are!! or How do you ever think of such things? My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them! But here she was, with a man at her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church.

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.