Quotes About Absorption

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

I think teams really want to see how you respond picking up and grasping things and if you can make changes and regurgitate that information.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

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Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they take everything as good and appropriate to absorb and unconsciously imitate.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

The whole point of getting engrossed in something that interests you, is that you dissolve into it, the more the intensity...the more you become vapor - you dissolve. In fact, there is no you to judge, to see... only emptiness within, that is the whole purpose of life... at least my life!"

Boredom is the opposite of learning.

The definition of a good game is therefore "one that teaches everything it has to offer before the player stops playing.

I'm such a believer in going to set, even when you're not working, because I think the best things to be learned, you don't necessarily get from your own scene or from someone speaking to you and telling you advice. I think it's all about watching and just taking it all in. It's not even when the cameras are rolling, necessarily.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

When I read, I ceased to be my-self, and this nonexistence I pursued and devoured like a drug.

Liminal moments. Those moments apart from time when you are gripped. Taken. When you are so fully absorbed in what you are doing that time ceases to exist. Those early morning birthday moments were liminal, Sidda thought. Momma knew how to embrace liminality inspite of (or maybe because of) her emotional acrobatics. Momma taught me rapture.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly tinged with longing.