Quotes About Immersion

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

I have consumed so many Weisinger-era Superman comics that they ooze back out through my pores!

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

When I read, I ceased to be my-self, and this nonexistence I pursued and devoured like a drug.

Or as my friend, the criminal-defense investigator who knows insanity and violence intimately, put it, "When one begins to lose touch with reality, the ill brain latches obsessively and delusionally onto whatever it's immersed in—the surrounding culture's illness.

To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.

if enjoyment is the right word for that sense of immersion in the moment and solidarity with others caused by the rupture in everyday life, an emotion graver than happiness but deeply positive. We don't even have a language for this emotion, in which the wonderful comes wrapped in the terrible, joy in sorrow, courage in fear. We cannot welcome disaster, but we can value the responses, both practical and psychological.

When one begins to lose touch with reality, the ill brain latches obsessively and delusionally onto whatever it's immersed in—the surrounding culture's illness.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go.

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.