Quotes About Engrossment

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

Some books you read, some you enjoy, but some books just swallow you up, heart and soul..

her eyes devoured the following words

In most interviews, both subject and interviewer give more than is necessary. They are always being seduced and distracted by the encounter's outward resemblance to an ordinary friendly meeting.

The only thing I've ever stolen are hours out of people's lives with meandering conversations.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we're planning what we'll say next, some exciting story of our own.

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

When a game does this well, you lose track of your manipulation of it, and its manipulation of you, and instead feel inserted so deeply inside the game that your mind, and your feelings, become as seemingly crucial to its operation as its many millions of lines of code. It is the sensation that the game itself is suddenly unknowably alive as you are.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

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In twenty-five years," he asserted, "I have never attended a meeting where there were more people listening than talking.

We need to make politics more user-friendly.

When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen.

Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

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boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

When you are communicating with new people you do not have to know their names — after all, you've just met.

Obsession comes from the latin verb that means to besiege.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

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