Quotes About Absorption

Concentration is the secret of power.

We have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation, and to so train the minds of the new generation as to make them capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problem of its own day.

You can only go into mourning by transfiguration or disfigurement. There is no rational form of the absorption of death.

No day passed that did not present an opportunity to become obsessed with a new area of concern.

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.

Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

to misunderstand love as 'complete absorption in' rather than 'in full communication with'.

Leggiamo il libro ma, più profondamente, è il libro a leggere noi.

The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed in it's growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically.

He does not so much inhabit this landscape as become inhabited by it. Its rivers flow through his veins, its branches toss in his hair, its planets burn through the bone of his forehead and irradiate his skull, its volcanoes stir and grumble in his throat

She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you. You should have one absorbing occupation and as for the other things in life for full enjoyment you should only contemplate results. In this way you are bound to feel more about it than those who know a little of how it is done.

If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.

The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

No one in the Indian team gave me tips, but I should be mature enough to grasp little things by watching them train and play.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

once more, I am flat out on a slab of oolitic limestone, absorbing the dusk leaking blue through its tall net of branches

You're going to eat him alive and never even notice.