Quotes About Absorption

I read for pleasure," wrote Margaret Atwood, "and that is the moment at which I learn most. Subliminal learning.

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

The effect of this first phase of learning seemed to be to get the learner involved, captivated, hooked, and to get the learner to need and want more information and expertise.

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation,   you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon   making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading,   wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function.   How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.   —W. H. Auden

In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.

It seemed Yolande had become so self-absorbed she no longer existed. She'd finally absorbed herself.

absorbed she no longer existed. She'd finally absorbed herself.

My father, a closet astronomer, has tried to explain black holes to me, how they are so heavy they absorb everything, even light, right into their center. Moments like this are the same kind of vacuum; no matter what you cling to, you wind up being sucked in.

One ounce of nuts is about 200 calories and can fit into a cupped hand, so do not eat more than this one handful of nuts per day. They are best used in salads, salad dressings, and dips, because when eaten with greens, they greatly enhance the absorption of nutrients from the green vegetables. You should never snack on nuts and seeds; they should be part of a meal.

Processed carbohydrates, lacking in fiber, fail to slow sugar absorption, causing wide swings in glucose levels.

In my experience, 2000 IU is an appropriate dose that most consistently brings most people into the favorable range for 25-hydroxy vitamin D on their blood test.

Oil gets absorbed efficiently and quickly and converted almost instantly into body fat. Even olive oil, coconut oil, and soybean oil. When fat calories are absorbed so rapidly in such a large bolus, they cannot all be utilized for energy, so they are rapidly stored as body fat, something Americans have in large supply. Excess body fat increases the likelihood of cancer. Vegetable

Of the thirteen currently recognized vitamins, four are fat-soluble (vitamins A, D, E, and K) and nine are water-soluble (eight B vitamins and vitamin C).

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When you sit down with a book, you are separating yourself out of your world for a few hours and getting lost in the story.

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.