Quotes About Engagement

una persona que utiliza un ordenador experimenta una «deriva cognitiva» si pasa más de un segundo entre hacer clic con el ratón y ver nuevos datos en la pantalla. Si pasan diez segundos, la mente de la persona está ya en otro sitio.

An opponent who feels his argument is ignored isn't likely to engage with you at all.

When you're that engaged, you'll run circles around other people even if they are more naturally talented.

it is often possible to elicit the behavior you want through nonfinancial means.

When you stand up to preach, people are bored and expect you to make it worse.

Because each day is different, I thrive on creating something out of nothing, and I love running a business. I also flourish when I know what's going on across the company and who's doing what with whom and why. I love learning from customers, and I marvel at the knowledge and experience of people who contribute to the creation of great products.

If you want your boomerang to come back, first you've got to throw it.

Flow starts when we say yes to the fight.

But the easiest way to live in the moment is to put yourself in a situation where there's no other choice.

Flirting has to be the original form of guerrilla marketing, from back before markets even existed.

We pay to watch, read, or be in the presence of a flow experience. If quantified, you'd find it's a major chunk of the GDP.

He defined the state as "being so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.

Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business.

Companionship drives focus into the now

Long after the children had dispersed, they avidly exchanged books and reading recommendations as if no book was truly read until all had read it.

The results suggest that many of the things that make people happy also make their lives meaningful, such as being connected to others, feeling productive, and not being alone or bored.

Linguistic research has shown that the passive construction has a number of indispensable functions because of the way it engages a reader's attention and memory.

sconser n. A person who looks around while talking to you to see if there's anyone more interesting about.

Every audience is spread out along a bell curve of sophistication, and inevitably we'll bore a few at the top while baffling a few at the bottom; the only question is how many there will be of each.

Algunos experimentos han demostrado que a las personas les convence más un discurso político cuando el orador apela a su corazón y su mente con metáforas relacionadas con la familia.

what is style, after all, but the effective use of words to engage the human mind?

Active, shmactive!

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.