Quotes About Immersion

This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.

I love really long books because it feels like you are diving into a pool for a very long time.:)

You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

The best tourist is one without a camera.

You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea..

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls "flow")

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present...

you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

Its more real to me here than if I went up, he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other

It's more real to me here than if I went up, he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other.

Immersion in no way affected Roosevelt's cheerful volubility. I never saw a man who talked so much, Rondon marveled. I used to love to watch him think...for he always gesticulated. He would be alone, not saying a word, yet his hands would be moving, and he would be waving his arms and nodding his head with the greatest determination, as though arguing with somebody else.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

It felt like lying, only better, because he couldn't be caught, and he couldn't be caught because there was nothing to verify it against. Immersed in the flow of bullshit, they had no reason, or time, not to believe him.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

Una delle principali premesse di questo studio è che un totale coinvolgimento con ciò che si sta facendo è la condizione essenziale del piacere. Un coinvolgimento parziale ci lascia divisi e in conflitto. p. 12

When you're playing your part, you don't watch other people - you just play your part.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.