Quotes About Immersion

What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.

We believe a truly new kind of game entertainment will not be realized unless there is a new way to connect a player to his game.

For me, it was really important to immerse myself in the New York nightlife drag scene and become an integral part of that community.

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

Reading is itself a state of artificially enhanced loneliness.

This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.

a movie set, Julia, is a tiny, intimate world, divorced from reality. No, immune to it." She smiled to herself. "Fantasy, however difficult the work, is its own addiction. Which is why so many of us delude ourselves into believing we've fallen desperately in love with another character in that shiny bubble—for the length of time it takes to create a film.

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.

Leggere non è un passatempo da comitiva. Non è come andare a vedere un film o assistere a un concerto. È il margine più solitario dello spettro.

Instead of writing about a character, write from within the character.

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

This idea stayed with me for several years before I found an adequate way to express it. I called the sea Quiddity, and slowly developed a mythology around it. Human beings would enter Quiddity, the dream-sea, three times, I decided. Once when they were born, once when they slept beside the person they would love most in their lives, and once before they died. Three life-changing immersions in the sea of the unconscious. Three confrontations with the secret show of our dreams.

So intense was Kennedy's concentration that she hadn't

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.

When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the act of attention might lead to our sinking involuntarily into the history of that object.

skill of mastering the art of effortless concentration

intentado concentrarnos.

The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in

Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested.

When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.

This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book may be a work of art, possibly a very great one, but for the child reader, certain books are universes. If we are lucky, we retain some of that capacity to be immersed in a story.

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