Quotes About Immersion

Don't think about your past, enjoy your present. And do your best. Reduce immosion, otherwise it will give you painful moments.

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

at about page twenty or so, the magical thing occurred that happens only with the very best books: I became absorbed and obsessed and entered the "Can't you see I'm reading?" mode.

The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by the Sages, adding maliciously that nothing so sharpened the wits as a passion somewhat out of the common. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

People probably heard a greater quantity of music, and a greater variety, on these devices than they would ever hear in person in their lifetimes.

John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn't stopped. I don't think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw that little ofay kid in the corner, you know, but he totally turned my mind to Jell-O at that point and that was my John Coltrane experience.

Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.

When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me, or at least to be so painfully aware of being me.

Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important" -John Carmack

Story in a game," he said, "is like a story in a porn movie; it's expected to be there, but it's not that important.

Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

Passion focuses your mind to one thing that you are doing and leaves no space for something else to enter" - Ashutosh in the book "Songs of the Mist

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.