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Quotes About Immersion

When you play a daily soap character that character lives with you for a really long time.
~ Jasmin Bhasin
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
~ Roger Ebert
I just became one with my browser software.
~ Bill Griffith
I find solace in immersing myself in my work.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.
~ Brock Pierce
Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.
~ Tim O'Brien
Picking just one game above all is nearly impossible for me, but if I had to, it would be 'Metal Gear Solid.' I remember being completely blown away with the story, the mechanics and the overall presentation on my first playthrough.
~ Cory Barlog
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
~ Richard Jefferies
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
~ Augusten Burroughs
We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control.
~ David Cage
Spend time with the customers, immersing yourselves, watching. Spend time at their homes. Hear what they say, but most importantly, watch their behaviors as the indication of where the pain is. And then go solve that pain.
~ Scott Cook
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
~ Kevin Bacon
I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.
~ Jeff Ament
Emily is grateful to this man and gradually she begins to immerse herself into the world of Tiger's obsession.
~ Pet Torres, Tiger's Obsession
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
~ Ralph Baer
I'd Drown For YouI opened my heart to youA complete immersionI offered my soul to youA heavenly diversion
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.
~ Montaigne Michel De
We must in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Read it quickly and with total immersion.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Let the characters into your mind and heart; suspend your disbelief, if such it is, about the events. Do not disapprove of something a character does before you understand why he does it—if then. Try as hard as you can to live in his world, not in yours; there, the things he does may be quite understandable. And do not judge the world as a whole until you are sure that you have "lived" in it to the extent of your ability.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly. I wanted to stop my ears and my eyes and my mouth with it.
~ Naomi Novik