Quotes About Immersion

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Better this immersion than to live untouched.

When lies are swarming and attacking me like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, the best thing I can do is open God's Word and immerse myself in His truth. Lies flee in the presence of truth.

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—

If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not an artist.

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience.

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.