Quotes About Immersion

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

There are records I play like when someone goes to the temple and spins the prayer wheel. Like The Crack by the Ruts, which is a great record anyway but sometimes I play it just so the room is filled with it, so the air can't say it doesn't exist, so the walls must acknowledge it.

At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he could not tear himself away. And so Avdyeitch used to read every evening.

But one may acquire what MacIntyre calls a "second first language," a language which is learned in the same way that a child learns to use the native tongue. A missionary or an anthropologist who really hopes to understand and enter into the adopted culture will not do so by trying to learn the language in the way a tourist uses a phrasebook and a dictionary.

They were where he went when he couldn't deal with the real world, which was a lot.

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His mind was an icy pond constantly in danger of thawing. He trod on it only lightly-its surface was perilously slick and who knew how thin. To break through would mean immersion in what was below: cold, dark anaerobic water and angry, toothy fish. The fish were memories. He wanted to put them away somewhere and forget where he'd put them, but he couldn't.

The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I enjoy the process of adding elaboration into games and like to communicate with users through the details I create.

Immersion was founded in 1993 with the mission of bringing the sense of touch to computing. Our technology, TouchSense, is embedded in computer peripheral devices and allows users to reach in and physically interact with content on their computer screens.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.

When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

When you go for a vacation, you hit the usual spots, but staying in a country for over a month is a different experience altogether.

I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film.

I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time