Quotes About Engagement

Author Dave Crenshaw put it just right when he wrote, "The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships." Every

Author Dave Crenshaw put it just right when he wrote, "The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

When you make asking the Focusing Question a habit, you fully engage its power to get the extraordinary results you want.

To quote Nass, "Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

I'm going to ask you to do something that may feel even more painful: when you get close to becoming engaged, put any public announcement on delay for a few weeks and spend several sessions talking through all these issues again with someone else present.

When we live for ourselves, we become boring. Most of us are simply not interesting enough on our own to captivate someone else for five or six decades.

start these conversations with questions that seek understanding, not with accusations that seek submission

Make 'Em Laugh! Humor is a vastly underrated tool for relationship and trust-building.

You already have the ability to start a conversation with strangers. You just need the right motivation. You just need the right push. You just need the right mindset.

How will you look, how will you sound, how will you carry yourself. How will you make people feel, how will you interact with people.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. The book needs you.

Hear how the use of the wrong word wakes you from your reading spell.

When you are describing things and places the reader has seen, keep description short by reminding him of the pictures he has on file. When you are describing things and places the reader has not seen, keep description short by using pieces of the pictures he has on file to create new pictures.

it doesn't matter what actions you take or don't take in the world — although your way of seeing and the attitude you maintain while engaging in any action does matter. Of course, as long as you appear to exist within the world of multiplicity, you will have some temporary earthly concerns, and we do not intend to ignore your worldly needs. The Holy Spirit isn't stupid, and as we said, your experience is that you are here.

J was both with me and aware of me, and ready to show me how to do whatever was asked of me.

When you read the words on the page you give it life - yours...

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

we can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch ' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.