Quotes About Engrossment

Erin!" "Hmmm?" "I'm talking to you!" "At me." She looped the sword around her hips and fastened the belt. "To me is when I answer.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

And, so full of his thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the main-mast and now at the binnacle, you could almost see that thought turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely possessing him, indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mould of every outer movement.

creating a void which others seek to fill through conversation.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

They gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama

I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly. I wanted to stop my ears and my eyes and my mouth with it.

I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

Will you talk to me

It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it.

You make a habit of talking to statues?" "Yes. And pigeons. Now, are you going to ask?

answered the phone: "My

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.

I'm someone who has a hard time turning down a conversation. And an even harder time starting a conversation and ending it abruptly - ending it before it's over.

I read pretty much every tweet that's sent to me and often reply.

Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation

You're confusing boredom with obsession.

Do I know you? No, she said. But can we talk anyway?

If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow men, he ought to do what I am doing: pester them with letters.

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.