Quotes About Absorption

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.

Whenever you catch a ball, just see it all the way into the tuck.

The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend off Mongol conquerors, but at a terrible cost. Turks, Persians, and Russians sought to seize Chechnya, and it was finally absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1859.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

People love learning new things and you need to understand they want to learn it as easy as possible.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Memory, which depends on the capacity to absorb ideas and information through exposition and to connect new information to an established edifice of knowledge, is one of the first victims of video culture. Without memory, judgments are made on the unsound basis of the most recent bit of half-digested information.

She buried herself so deep in the book no harm could ever find her.

Do you find this...distracting?