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Quotes About Absorption

Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
~ Cal newport
To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.
~ Cal newport
To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.
~ Cal newport
To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To
~ Cal newport
Deep Work Helps You Quickly Learn Hard Things "Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.
~ Cal newport
Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your
~ Cal newport
flow activities.
~ Cal newport
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
~ Callan McAuliffe
It was electrifying the way he watched her so carefully that he forgot himself.
~ Cammie McGovern
At times I think I can hear my brain screaming, "I am reading here, so please, all other body parts, do your best to keep up!
~ Camron Wright
you, bringing serenity in those moments when you are most absorbed in a project.
~ Candy Paull
Atunci eu ce fel de mancare as fi? - Tu esti un bol plin cu orez alb. Ceva ce nu trebuie sa lipseasca. Simplu, dar nutritiv. Nici prea greu, nici prea usor. Valoros in sine, caci are darul de a absorbi toate savorile vietii.
~ Care Santos
When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you're a participant.
~ Gayle Forman
It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it.
~ Gayle Forman
Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything. - Stephen King
~ Geoffrey Douglas
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
~ Reading means borrowing.
I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We cannot really love the dead. We love a fantasm that secretly consoles. What love sometimes mistakes for death is a kind of intense suffering, a pain that can be endured and absorbed. But the idea of a real ending, that cannot be envisaged . . . Indeed, in the language of love the concept of an ending is devoid of sense. (So we must go beyond love or utterly change it.)
~ Iris Murdoch
Bereavement is my occupation and it absorbs me completely. You want me to touch you, to look at you with sympathy. I cannot.
~ Iris Murdoch
La sociedad inventa una lógica falsa y retorcida para absorber y canalizar el comportamiento de la gente cuyo comportamiento está fuera de los cánones mayoritarios.
~ Irvine Welsh
You need to be able to climb into a narrative and zip it up under your chin. You need to be able to see through the eyes of the hero, smell what he's smelling, hear what he's hearing.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
~ Michael Chabon
When I'm working, I don't think about other things. I go into a zone.
~ Anirudh Ravichander
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
~ Andre Gide