Quotes About Absorption

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.

Take the most notes on the first day. That's when you see the most.

consumed everything I could read or listen to that

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.

Men were looking at her, but with neither sympathy nor antipathy. Nor even with curiosity, she thought. They had the absorbed and vacant expression of the man who looks into his handkerchief after blowing his nose.

In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some and here it is; read it, absorb it, and forget it.

Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critiques. Just full-on absorption mode.

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.

You can only put your conscious attention on one thing at a time. If that's all that has your attention, you're in flow.

looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.