Quotes About Absorption

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

Before setting foot in the Holy of the Holies you must take off your shoes, yet not only your shoes, but everything; you must take off your traveling-garment and lay down your luggage; and under that you must shed your nakedness and everything that is under the nakedness and everything that hides beneath that, and then the core and the core of the core, then the remainder and then the residue and then even the Holy of the Holies and let yourself be absorbed by it; neither can resist the other.

28. Je?li raz si? wch?on??o z?o, to ono ju? nie ??da, by mu wierzono.

Knowledge must seep into your blood, into your self, not just into your head, you must live it.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.

When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages.

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.

We are able to hear only what we're ready to take in. As productivity guru David Alan points out - information is always available, but WE are not always available to the information.

Avea una dintre acele foarte vechi priviri de italian care-È™i cunoaÈ™te lumea. E o privire gurmand? care te înv?luie ca s? te înghit? mai bine.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

Patrice leaned to one side and put her ear to the trunk of a birch tree. She could hear the humming rush of the tree drinking from the earth. She closed her eyes, went through the bark like water, and was sucked up off the bud tips into a cloud.

I am probably porous because it costs a lot to not be aware.

Come on, Pandora, open your belly, and digest me; This thing is amusing, but digest me.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Once the story captures my senses, I am no longer conscious of the act of reading words. I am in the story.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

Hugo y yo nos entregamos totalmente el uno al otro. No podemos estar el uno sin el otro, no soportamos la discordia, la guerra, el alejamiento, no podemos dar paseos solos, no nos gusta viajar sin el otro. Nos hemos entregado a pesar de nuestro individualismo, de nuestra aversión a la intimidad. Nuestro amor ha absorbido nuestro egocentrismo. Nuestro amor es nuestro ego.