Quotes About Absorption

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

I internalise every role that I do and my creative process sees me immerse myself with the setting and the character that I have at hand.

For the two or three weeks you work on an episode, you totally immerse yourself.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

One-pointedness of mind explains the fact that in any act of consciousness there is a central point of focus, towards which the entire objective datum points from its outer peripheries to its inner nucleus.

I have no average day. I have no free time. I have no hobbies. I live through my obsessions.

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

I've realized that I kind of ignore the sets. When I say I ignore them, I can obviously see them, and I'm like, Wow, this is amazing,' but then I get on to whatever we're doing.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on 'Ride Along,' you learn so much. He's a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn't do. I do nothing but soak up information.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of--I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters--I live and breathe them.

Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Interest sparked in Jess's eyes. "Then

Learning is a lot like eating. It is not how much we eat that matters, but what really matters is how much we digest.

And books -- she swallows like dumplings.

when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely... You should burn yourself completely.

If pre-warned perhaps I could have used the tactic of a former KGB officer I once knew. He claimed he would swallow handfuls of lard before boozy meetings with crucial contacts, because the fat would line his stomach, prevent absorption of alcohol, and keep him sharp and focused. This is still not to be recommended.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things