Quotes About Absorption

La culture est comme le smog. Pour y vivre, il faut en respirer une partie et, inévitablement, être contaminé.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

When we see and appreciate the beauty in others, we tend to absorb it and make it ours.

Oh my love, I like to vanish in you like a ripple vanishes in an ocean—slowly, silently, and endlessly.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

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

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Children are great observers.

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

at about page twenty or so, the magical thing occurred that happens only with the very best books: I became absorbed and obsessed and entered the "Can't you see I'm reading?" mode.

They already know. We announced it." Okay, you told them, but it didn't sink in. Threatening information is absorbed remarkably slowly. Say it again. And find different ways to say it and different media (large meetings, one-on-ones, email, a story on the company website, Tweets) in which to say it.