Quotes About Absorb

It matches the capacity of evil to inflict suffering with an even more enduring capacity to absorb evil, all the while persisting in love.

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

Better to lurk, observe, and merge

I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered.

After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets' efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime assurances of elections to come.

Yup. The best way to absorb the cowboy lifestyle was to just jump right into it... or on top of one. Casey smiled.

Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, 'I didn't pay him to say that.'

In this way, Harvard Law School gives me a big gift: I worry less about hostile responses. Ultimately, they educate an audience. As the great Flo Kennedy will suggest later when we begin to speak together, "Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, 'I didn't pay him to say that.'

Garner knowledge, by any means possible

Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.

I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have to stretch yourself to absorb it.

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side.

Don't read with your eyes.

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

In standup, you must be able to hypnotize the audience.

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.

The air held the sweet night like a sponge.