Quotes About Absorption

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Someone else is doing the living for me, and all I have to do is let their stories, humor, knowledge, and images—some of which I'll never forget—flow through me, even as I forget to turn off the car when I arrive at my destination.

What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next--to be drenched in work as one is drenched in sleep or the sea.

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat's black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.

He looked away as if he were again disengaging himself from the present.

It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long.

Cemetery. It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long.

It's embarrassing when the Clash are slavishly acclaimed by critics as the rock 'n' roll band of the decade—and yet, what other band has so successfully absorbed the music of so many cultures, digested it, and emerged with a startling, evocative language of their own?

One listened and one remembered. I listened as best I could, but there were no hooks in my head to hang much of it on.

The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

I want to be a student for life.

Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

En la vida real era muy distinto. Todo el mundo es sospechoso. Todo el mundo está absorto.

time she was consumed with