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Quotes About Absorb

This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can't absorb this idea, best go home now." I
~ Don DeLillo
one-liner makes people lean in rather than tune out at cocktail party.
~ Donald Miller
to listen for real.
~ Unknown
Each morning my mind is like a dry sponge. Whatever I soak up first is what I'll be most saturated with each day. And what I'm most saturated with each day is what I'll leak out on others when life's tough stuff squeezes me.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It is one of the sick ironies of the war that they probably would not have been able to if they had not learned to absorb loss in the nightmare of Stalin's purges.
~ Unknown
Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
~ George Meyer
absorb them, and relegate them to the status
~ Unknown
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.
~ Marcel Proust
The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.
~ John Steinbeck
But whereas most men in their search for contentment destroy themselves and fall wearily short of their targets, Mack and his friends approached contentment casually, quietly, and absorbed it gently.
~ John Steinbeck
Read, read read. Read everything.
~ William Faulkner
Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.
~ George Clinton
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
~ Timothy Keller
leadership requires disturbing people—but at a rate they can absorb.
~ Unknown
Teutonic Order," wearing black crosses on their shoulders, which, after fraternizing with the Livonian Knights, was going to absorb them—together with some other things—into their own more powerful organization. Russia had no armed warriors to meet these steel-clad Germans and Livonians.
~ Unknown
Don't absorb criticism from people you wouldn't go to for advice.
~ Matt Haig
Add Pauses Every good storyteller knows that a pause can do so many things. It can heighten the tension of the scene, or simply allow the audience to absorb the information given to them, or give the listener an opportunity to laugh or respond back with a "Really?", "Oh my gosh", or "No way!
~ Matt Morris
I had a mission. To absorb everything in this world. But also to escape.
~ Meg Wolitzer
It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.
~ Mia Wasikowska
We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn't do this. We mustn't play Hot Potato with our pain. Let's absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let's inhale it, let's digest it, let's process it into fuel.
~ Miriam Toews
The brain is a tick that sucks all reality out of us.
~ Unknown
The tall tales we unthinkingly absorb when young somehow remain within; the result is a narrowly conceived sense of national belonging productive of the most uncompromising of satisfying myths: "American exceptionalism." We are unique and different, and the absence of class is one of our hallmarks.
~ Unknown
High-density lipoprotein is not really cholesterol but a carrier of cholesterol, able to absorb cholesterol particles and other fats from the blood and donate them to tissues if needed, or to the liver for processing and excretion if not.
~ Natalie Angier
In union with God, the heart absorbs the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one. Quotation attributed to St John Chrysostom by Callistus and Ignatius Xanthopoulos, 52 (Philokalia IV,252)
~ Olivier Clement