Quotes About Immersion

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

You can only put your conscious attention on one thing at a time. If that's all that has your attention, you're in flow.

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Can you choose something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?

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

learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately—the object seemed incidental to this will to give oneself away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.

I was enjoying being one horizontal object in a room filled with horizontality.

Step into the skin and disappear.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

To make matters worse, I was out of a job and had very little money and was self-exiled to Flatbush—like others of my countrymen, another lean and lonesome Southerner wandering amid the Kingdom of the Jews.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it.

My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

Qué sería para ella "leer enfermizamente"? ¿Cuántas horas por día? ¿Cuántos libros por mes? ¿Sería consciente de que me lo estaba diciendo a mí, que soy librera?

IT WAS LIKE RIDING INTO THE BLAST OF A HAIR-DRYER SET ON HOT.

Había cometido la osadía de creer que no podría pasarme nada: después de todo, iba inmersa en un poema.

For me, who has been so much alone, it feels like drowning in a deluge of sights and sounds and smells.

She closed her eyes and felt everyhting: the warmth of the café, the taste of the muffin, the by now familiar smell of coffee and secondhand books.