Quotes About Engagement

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for my life but I am more interested in it, more engaged you might say. When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

Make a list of some things your children like you to do with them but aren't necessarily fun for you—playing a board game on the floor with a young child, going outside to throw a ball, sitting down with a child to read his or her creative story or to look at an artistic creation, and so on. Commit to saying yes to their requests instead of no, knowing that if you invest in what is important to them, they will be open to believing in what is important to you.

God loves when you wrestle Him, Nathan," she said. "Because wrestling is a full-contact sport, and God loves it when you are in contact with Him. Maybe He has a bigger view of your life and is willing to do more than you can presently see.

You need to teach your lips how to be persuasive," I would say, "You have a profound way of thinking, but you will lose your audience if you attack them. How could you have said that with more appeal?

I have always told my children that they might as well decide to embrace God's will for their lives right where they are and engage in the present moment with as much faith and wisdom and skill as they can, because their circumstances are not going to miraculously change.

Bobby Abbott seemed to have lost attention after the first sentence.

it lies in the capacity to be fully present. Present for a task, for a conversation, for the moment, for an opportunity. Present for your larger purpose in the world.

For the fact is that doing two things at once makes it impossible to be present for either because your attention is by definition fragmented.

When you're on autopilot, you are not really thinking about this situation, this moment, this challenge, or the specific response it requires. You're just reacting in a way that has become comfortable for you over time. Your brain saves a lot of energy this way. You expand fewer mental calories. But you're not really present for what you are doing. Which is why you are not considering whether your behavior is serving you now.

People don't want to connect with brands. They want to connect with each other. Fascinating companies create more opportunities for people to connect with each other, through the brand.

But over time, people can lose their innate ability to fascinate. They acquire layers of boring.

Your influence is determined by your ability to get people to take action.

Today, every piece of your communication faces three enemies: distraction, competition, and commoditization.

You will not win by being quiet. You will win by being heard.

develop your own compelling way of attracting business, and getting results.

Fascination is not the same as interest. It's a neurological state of intense focus, one that creates an irresistible feeling of engagement.

Too often, marketers rush in and smother consumers. Instead of a high-pressure pitch, what if you used a low-pressure (or anti-pressure) approach? Consider backing off a little. Pull customers in, rather than pushing them to buy. Build an anticipation gap.

If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

Now you need to "front-load" your value. Cut to the chase. Get to the point. Make it short and sweet. The pressure is on. It's almost as if people have developed collective ADD, swimming like a goldfish from one message to another, jumping from one email to the next.

Sometimes the most fascinating advertising isn't what your brand says to the world, but what it actually does in the world.

A million generations after our reptilian brains retreated to the base of our brain stems, fascination continues to be our most basic form of attention. Why? Because fascination, at some level, is based upon survival. And to survive, you must fascinate.

For marketers, it's not about marketing a message—it's about getting the market to create messages about you.

child with ADHD may not seem to listen when spoken to or follow directions, may be reluctant to engage in tasks that are boring or effortful, may be distracted easily, fidget, leave his or her seat when sitting is expected, have difficulty waiting his or her turn, interrupt others, and talk excessively.