Quotes About Engagement

The only reason why a company like Patreon works is because of transparency, being open with people and telling them what's going on, and having them support you.

I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.

It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn't much going on around there.

Far too often, local voices have been overlooked when it comes to planning transportation projects.

You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Teaching, I soon learned, was a deliberate dance, a constant running conversation, a pleasure.

a relationship is between one person and another

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

A novel is like a car—it won't go anywhere until you turn on the engine. The "engine" of both fiction and nonfiction is the point at which the reader makes the decision not to put the book down. The engine should start in the first three pages, the closer to the top of page one the better.

Suspense is strong glue between the reader and the writing.

The more the reader's imagination can be substituted for detail from the writer, the greater the reader's experience will be.

Any word or group of words that makes the reader ask "Why?" or "How?" also serves as an inducement for the reader to go on.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with finding our own thoughts more interesting than a long story about someone's husband's niece's gum surgery. Introverts

In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that the more people were thinking about something other than what they were doing, the less happy they felt. Even when they weren't thinking about anything particularly bad.

Small talk is the WD-40 of society. It has a purpose, perhaps many purposes. A few niceties with a sales clerk, a little joshing with your dentist's receptionist, some light get-to-know-ya banter with a stranger at a party—it keeps the gears of society cranking smoothly, makes the world feel friendly, and protects our social muscles from atrophy.

A phenomenon I have had cause to notice time and again in both my professional and my social life is that when one meets a large group of people all at once, one somehow knows-as if by otherworldly instinct-which of them one will enjoy speaking to and which are worth avoiding.

The Guest Speaker I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks. For his and for procedure's sake I have to keep myself awake. However long his talk might take (And, Christ, it feels like weeks) I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks.

If we are to provide our students with skills for success, we must imbue a love of learning. If

The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.