Quotes About Absorption

As a listener, I like shorter records, because you can really absorb the songs.

Always be listening and learning.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I can remember that 2005 Ashes as a kid and being really absorbed in that whole series at 14 years old. It was magical.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

As pessoas nao vão morrer. Não é esse o credo da nova cultura? As pessoas vão ser absorvidas em fluxos de informações. Não entendo nada disso. Os computadores vão morrer. Já estão morrendo na sua forma atual. Estão praticamente mortos como unidades distintas. Uma caixa, uma tela, um teclado. Eles estão se dissolvendo na textura da vida cotidiana. (...) Até a palavra computador parece retrógrada e burra.

When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed in literature by reading faster and faster--but reading more is reading less. I learned to slow down.

Story is the one thing that can hold a human being's attention for hours.

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. A story I will remember long after I've read it for the second, third, tenth, hundredth time.

When you love a thing, little man, my dad said, you gotta love it with everything you got. Till you can't even tell where that thing you love begins and where you end.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

she couldn't remember anything after eating her

Better this immersion than to live untouched.

His mother had often talked about the way certain books called you when you were really engrossed in them and to put them down.

Our minds and hearts are like dry sponges. What we focus on is what will soak in and saturate us. If it is something foolish, we will make foolish decisions. If it is wise, we will make wise decisions.

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

Silêncio. Um centro negro e tranquilo absorvendo o caos para a sua quietude

HER FINGERS RAN LIGHTLY over the beams, stroked the threads of the weft like a stable master greeting a prize horse. She asked no questions; she seemed to absorb the loom's workings by touch alone.

Beauty is one of the richest graces God has provided to heal our souls and absorb his goodness.

There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.