Quotes About Immersion

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you're watching an actor and be really involved in all aspects of filmmaking.

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

Where ever you are, be there totally.

the midst of intense activity finds himself in the

they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

The ability to be totally immersed in the world of history, politics, and economics, and yet remember God is the way of the most holy masters. Thus Joseph is called in Kabbalah the tzaddik or "righteous one." Tzaddik is a term for a holy person, but in Judaism a person is also required to sanctify the world. It

I was doing exactly the same thing as Aislinn: getting lost so deep inside the story in my head, I couldn't see past its walls to the outside world. I feel those walls shift and start to waver, with a rumble that shakes my bones from the inside out. I feel my face naked to the ice-flavored air that pours through the cracks and keeps coming. A great shiver is building in my back.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.

But the only way to learn an unknown language is to interact with a native speaker, and by that I mean asking questions, holding a conversation, that sort of thing.

I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps I could immerse myself fully in the necessity of events, as the must, instead of merely wading in its surf for the rest of my life.

Dive deep. Drown willingly

Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

Shaping ideas requires long-term interaction with long-range goals and 100 percent saturation.

When I went to Spain two years ago, I only knew three Valencia players. I didn't know anything about La Liga, and within six months, I knew everything. I was speaking another language and knew everything about the game, so I am a fast learner.

The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

When I was young, always in Serbia there were some telenovelas on television, Spanish language. Then you listen, listen, listen, you watch one series, and then you can understand.

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.