Quotes About Absorption

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

I like to talk about different subjects because then you give the people a chance to really digest something, and then take whatever they associate themselves with at the time.

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

If you want to truly take in the subtleties and detail of your favorite records, then enjoy them the same way you would a movie. Make music an event, not a side dish.

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff.

Sometimes we are so involved with our activity that we lose ourselves in it, and in that sense we are living in the moment.

She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.

That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.

We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

Reading fiction, I see through the prism of another person's understanding; reading everything else, I am travelling--I am travelling in the way that I still can: new sights, new experiences. I am reminded sometimes of the intensity of childhood reading, that absolute absorption when the very ability to read was a heady new gain, the gateway to a different place, to a parallel universe you hadn't known was there. The one entirely benign mind-altering drug.

As readers, we are content, even delighted, to be lost, in the sense that we are both absorbed and uncertain of where we are or where we are going, as long as we feel confident we are following a guide who has not only the destination but our route to it clearly in mind.

I've just read it so much, it memorized itself.

capital has become very sophisticated about absorbing people's free time because it doesn't want you to have free time because you might THINK...

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

Judah were settled in Babylonia in 586, where they developed new rituals that allowed them to survive the absence of the Temple. In fact, because of their rapid absorption of Babylonian culture, only a minority of the exiles opted to return to Jerusalem when afforded the opportunity

Again she lost herself in the talk, and again her words seemed to be warming her whole body.

she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.