Quotes About Immersion

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

I have a whole room fully dedicated to playing games. Special chair on the ground with the speakers in it. The whole thing.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in the life of one specific species for years and study every aspect of its behavior until little by little, all of these patterns become clear. That would be great, but I don't know if I have it left in me.

You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a reader.

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

I go to grad school at NYU, and I learn all these things about speech and voice and games. It's like camp for an actor, and I got a chance to immerse myself 12 to 14 hours a day in what I love.

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

When I was a kid, my parents told me that every time we went to see a play or musical, I would sit there with my mouth hanging open completely immersed. I think it has just always spoken to me, been the thing that makes me feel alive, seen, and the way I can express myself.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

there was something willfully idiotic in going to an unknown country, ignoring its people, their languages, art, its beasts and butterflies, flowers, herbs, trees, ruins, et cetera, and reducing it all to a few lumps of heavy matter un the center of a dish.

The ineffable talent for finding patterns in chaos cannot do its thing unless he immerses himself in the chaos first.

The opening strains of "Comfortably Numb.

Modern English has given us two terms we need to explain this phenomenon: "geeking out" and "vegging out." To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal—and to have a good time doing it. To veg out, by contrast, means to enter a passive state and allow sounds and images to wash over you without troubling yourself too much about what it all means.

And you would like me to get mixed up in this somehow?

The stuff was tremendous, like drinking your favorite book.

his mind pleasantly intoxicated from exhaustion, Daniel experienced a faint echo of what it must be like, all the time, to be Isaac Newton: a permanent ongoing epiphany, an endless immersion in lurid radiance, a drowning in light, a ringing of cosmic harmonies in the ears.

Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

I like to shoot on location 'cause I can just immerse myself in the world of the movie.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.