Quotes About Engagement

I realize I didn't write those books to describe a landscape, but to continue being part of it.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

In the same way that a fiancée is a bride-to-be, I've always thought a girlfriend is a fiancée-to-be. Yes, most relationships bite the dust before things get long-term. However, that possibility of staying together forever remains the underlying force driving the relationship forward.

For Muslims, Jesus is seen as the messianic prophet they have claimed him to be. Islamic portraits of Jesus are said to parallel Q, James, and the Didache. Thus, we have a Jesus dynasty offered to a world in need of a less contentious religious history and engagement. Once again we have Jesusanity, not Christianity.

Don't alienate strangers. Sit back and enjoy the entertainment.

For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

Antes que me llamen, yo les responderé

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

Flow is engagement on steroids. Flow is that state of being in which time stands still, you're totally engaged in an activity, and the challenge of that particular activity matches up with your skill—so you're neither bored because it's too easy nor anxious because it's too hard.

Discipleship in the church today has more to do with consuming and absorbing cognitive content than it has anything to do with missional action.

learned in World War II that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen fired their weapons at an exposed enemy soldier.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

I am interested in politics.

If you can make the customer feel the way you do about your product, then your customer will buy your product.

the picture, how many people are chasing the girl? 2. What is the girl carrying? 3. Does the girl have both her feet on the ground? 4. What are the man and woman holding? 5. Is the girl wearing socks? 6. Is the girl wearing polka-dotted shorts?

Why do stories persuade? There are several explanations: First, people deduce a story's logic by themselves. We know from research and common sense that self-discovery is much more powerful than having people talk at you.

A borrowed signature story can also come from news accounts, historical events, biographies, novels, fables, TV shows or movies. Whatever the source, the stories must communicate the strategic message in an intriguing, involving and authentic way.

This book shows how to apply the power of storytelling to strategic messaging in the age of social media.

First, recognize that a set of facts can guide and inspire only if it is heard and gains buy-in—but that is rarely the case. Second, explore how stories can accomplish or help to accomplish the same objective. Sometimes, a set of facts can be turned into a story by providing a context and more information.

Unless your brand is one of these exceptions, it needs energy! That energy can come from new products—provided, of course, that your business is blessed with truly original and different products that are meaningful to people's lifestyles and passions.