Quotes About Immersion

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

If you want to truly take in the subtleties and detail of your favorite records, then enjoy them the same way you would a movie. Make music an event, not a side dish.

I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind of a psychopath, and you'd care about them.

To read is to enter an intercourse with a text.

There was an old Qeng Ho saying, "You know you've stayed too long when you start using the locals' calendar.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Shared vision fosters risk taking and experimentation. When people are immersed in a vision, they often don't know how to do it. They run an experiment. They change direction and run another experiment. Everything is an experiment, but there is no ambiguity.

It takes a traveler, not a tourist, to search for something deeper. Travelers want to find the wavelength on which they and the city connect.

To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is to experience the world differently, or to experience a different world temporarily.

Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as 'real life,' a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail.

Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have the new slang before it even hit the streets.

Hungry, tired, eyes sore, dying to pee, I would sit and take in every conceivable kind of movie. The only criterion for being shown at Canadian Images was that a movie be Canadian. It

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.