Quotes About Engagement

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.

Never forget that your ultimate goal is to create entertainment for the player—

To someone who's playing a game for the first time, the world is vital to creating and sustaining her interest. The other purpose of a game's world is to sell the game in the first place. It's not the game's mechanics that make a customer pick up a box in a store but the fantasy it offers: who she'll be, where she'll be, and what she'll be doing there if she plays that game. The

It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.

What about The Simpsons, you ask? I knew more about Springfield than I knew about my own city.

If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me.

How the fuck do you negotiate with a piece of software?

I wanted to propose marriage.

Yeah, I wish we could skip this storyline crap," Cruz said. "Bor-ing.

Then what are you interested in, Herobrine?" I asked. "Why are you here?

I quickly lost track of time. I forgot that my avatar was sitting in Halliday's bedroom and that, in reality, I was sitting in my hideout, huddled near the electric heater, tapping at the empty air in front of me, entering commands on an imaginary keyboard. All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. In

Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seemed to genuinely enjoy their job

Don't look directly in their eyes!" I heard Aech shout at us. "Never look in any of their eyes, OK?" I immediately averted my eyes and saw Shoto do the same thing. Aech caught us both staring at the ground. "I didn't tell you to avoid looking at them!" Aech shouted. "Just avoid looking any of them in the eye for longer than a second or two, or they'll go berserk, OK?

Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Una persona muy emocionada no tiene tiempo de notar la emoción de quien produce la suya".

What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.