Quotes About Absorption

A plant has been defined as a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface all that it needs for growth. Through

There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.

The first thing you have to do is throw yourself into whatever it is you're doing.

It is even more amusing to remember that an orange is really sort of blue in the model accepted in optical physics. That is, the fruit has absorbed blue — blue is conducted through its skin. We see orange precisely because there is no orange in the fruit — because orange is being reflected off the skin, to our eyes. The substance or isness of the fruit contains the blue we do not see; our brains contain the orange we do see.

Perhaps you will want time to digest what we've discussed," she

My body worked so well that eventually all things everywhere were swallowed and digested by me. I grew so large that I ate the world, and all the blood in the world is mine. What am I? You know, even though you are like everything else, and see me from the inside. I am the market.

One learns best as a child.

I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb right into them and be there. I just hate it when I'm doing that, and then somebody butts in and messes with my concentration.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Buzele ei erau ale mele, sorbeam, sorbeam, m? dezlipeam, priveam în t?cere ochii deschiÈ™i spre mine - È™i din nou...

Absorb yourself in the realities of the task at hand to the point of forgetting your own existence. Then you will have no leisure to delight in life (4:14) or abhor death. That would make this mission of yours quite doable!

And as she talks, I concentrate on spreading out my substance, making myself spongy to absorb the puffiness into myself, to absorb the pain radiating through her feet and legs and back.

What I invaded has invaded me.

The world is not with us enough.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.